If you have, give. If you learn, teach.
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.