You are confusing plumbing and love again.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.