Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

I love the structural part of the writing process.