After All, You Put A Lot Into

I Might Add That You Change As A Person As You Grow Older, So You Change As A Writer, Too.

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.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.

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.

We Must Nurture And Love, If Life Is To Have Any Real Meaning. But First We Must Find A Way To Survive Against The Things That Prevent Us From Doing So.