Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.