I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.