But One Must Go Where One's Road

One Thing You Who Had Secure Or Happy Childhoods Should Understand About Those Of Us Who Did Not. We Who Control Our Feelings, Who Avoid Conflicts At All Costs, Or Seem To Seek Them. Who Are Hypersensitive, Self-critical, Compulsive, Workaholic, And Above All Survivors. We Are Not That Way From Perversity, And We Cannot Just Relax And Let It Go. We’ve Learned To Cope In Ways You Never Had To.

Keep Writing, Because Not Only Does Practice Improve Skill, It Gives You More Chances To Score On The Market. I Did That For Eight Years Before Making My First Sale.

One Reason I Don't Suffer Writer's Block Is That I Don't Wait On The Muse, I Summon It At Need.

No Novel Is A Clone Of Any Preceding One, Though With A Background Cast Of Characters And Things That Has Grown To Thousands, There Are Many Familiar Aspects.

It Would Be Easier To Write A Novel Without Reader Input, But I Feel The Fiction Is Richer For It.