On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.