For Our Stories Are Not Yet Finished,

Here's A Secret: Fictive Text Doesn't Necessarily Flow Easily. Most Of The Time It's More Like Cutting A Highway Through A Mountain. You Just Have To Keep Working With Your Pick, Chipping Away At The Rock, Making Slow Progress.

...the Sweetest Temptation Could Be That Which Was Known To Be The Most Foolish.

I Did Not Know At First That It Would Be A Series; I Discovered After The First Novel That I Had More To Say About It, So I Did Another. And Another, And Then The Readers Demanded Yet More.

Normally I Work Out A General Summary Of What I Mean To Do, Then Start Writing, And The Details Can Be Different From My Anticipation. So There Is Considerable Flow, But Always Within Channels.

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.