Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder