I Don't Write For Publishers, Certainly Not

You Weren't Being Punished. You Were Waiting For Me.

You Learn To Write By Writing, And By Reading And Thinking About How Writers Have Created Their Characters And Invented Their Stories. If You Are Not A Reader, Don't Even Think About Being A Writer.

I'm Just Writing A Story That I Want To Read.

Life Is Neither Static Nor Unchanging. With No Individuality, There Can Be No Change, No Adaptation And, In An Inherently Changing World, Any Species Unable To Adapt Is Also Doomed.

I Had An Idea For A Story About A Young Woman Who Was Living With People Who Were Different, Not Just Superficially Different - Such As Hair Colour, Or Eye Colour, Or Skin Colour - But Different In Some Significant Way.