Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.
People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
