The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.