In Life, Finding A Voice Is Speaking

The First Thing My Family Did When We Moved Was Join The Local Church. The Second Was To Go To The Library And Get Library Cards.

Still, Something About Writing Made Me Spend Large Hours Of My Free Time At My Desk.

In My Case, Once You Sell A Lot Of Books And You Are Labeled A Bestselling Author, The Serious Critics Are Never Gonna Say Anything Nice About You.

I Was Tired Of Secrets, Tired Of Seeing Things I Was Not Supposed To See. And So I Just Cried.

The Two Mistakes That Come To Mind Are People Who Introduce A Flood Of Characters In The First Few Pages. Where The Reader Has To Stop And Get Out A Flow Chart And Has To Figure Out Who Is Who. And You Just Can't Do That - Introduce The First Four Generations Of A Character's Family In The First Chapter. You Can Introduce Four Or Five Characters At The Most In The First Chapter. Another Mistake Is To Use Big Words That Are Not Normally Used In Conversation To Try To Impress Folks With Your Vocabulary.