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

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

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

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

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.