When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Im always trolling for trivia.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.