What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Who would you be but who you are?

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.