The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.
That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.
Bullying is not okay. Period.
I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters and stories at the core of the books. And to be honest, I'm not smart enough to do the kind of wickedly sharp satire you get from someone like Pratchett.