It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.
Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.