I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.