When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.