I Cannot Imagine Life Without Books Any

Writing Fantasy Lets Me Imagine A Great Deal More Than, Say, Writing About Alligators, And Lets Me Write About Places More Distant Than Florida, But I Can Tell You Things About Florida And Alligators, Let You Make The Connection All On Your Own.

There Is Poetry In Fiction. If You Cannot See It And Feel It When You Write, You Need To Step Back And Examine What You Are Doing Wrong. If You Have Not Figured Out How To Write A Simple Declarative Sentence And Make It Sing With That Poetry, You Are Not Yet Ready To Write An Entire Book.

She Has Her Gown Nicely In Place Tonight, Doesn't She? Black Velvet And Sparkles, Not A Thread Left Hanging. Clever Girl, This City. Even The Sky Is Her Friend.

You Can Either Give In To What Youre Feeling, Just Say ‘okay, Enough Is Enough’ And Be Done With It, Or You Can Fight It.

On The Other Hand, I Still Approach Each Book With The Same Basic Plan In Mind - To Put Some People Under Severe Stress And See How They Hold Up.