I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

She just dropped it and ran!!

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.