You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.