I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way to write that same story. And the 102nd, and 103rd and 111th and 133rd.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.