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Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.