Please make me either relatable or terrible.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.