No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

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

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Im always trolling for trivia.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.