But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.