. . . Nobody Every Taught You

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

"a Name Isn't A Person." Ga Said. "don't Ever Remember Someone By Their Name. To Keep Someone Alive, You Put Them Inside You, You Put Their Face On Your Heart. Then, No Matter Where You Are, They're Always With You Because They're A Part Of You."

Writing Is Hard Work, And If Anything's True About The Process, It's That Fact That A Good Story Is Hard To Find And Even Trickier To Get On Paper. What's Less Romantic Than Staring Alone At A Blank Screen? And Edgy? I've Changed The Cat Little Because I Didn't Know What My Characters Were Going To Say Next.

In My Experience, Ghosts Are Made Up Only Of The Living, People You Know Are Out There But Are Forever Out Of Range

For An Entire Populace, Change, Growth, And Spontaneity Were Dangerous. Acting Upon A Personal Desire, Whispering A Hidden Longing, Revealing Your True Feelings - All The Human Actions We Think Of As Essential To A Character - Had Be Censored By The Self Lest They Be Punished By The State.