We Should Not Be Less Than What

Friendship Doesn't Have Anything To Do With Shoring Up Weakness. It Has To Do With Respect And Consideration For Those You Care About. It Has To Do With Wanting To Give Something Back To Those You Admire.

Fiction Writers Are Strange Beasts. They Are, Like All Writers, Observers First And Foremost. Everything That Happens To And Around Them Is Potential Material For A Story, And They Look At It That Way.

Growing Up, I Didn't Have A Lot Of Toys, And Personal Entertainment Depended On Individual Ingenuity And Imagination - Think Up A Story And Go Live It For An Afternoon.

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.

Fear Is A Fire To Temper Courage And Resolve. Use It So.