The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.