The Basic Rule Of Storytelling Is 'show,

But There It Is: Everyone Is Alone, For Life, And Maybe That's Not Such A Bad Thing.

I Wrote Before I Could Write. I Got My Hands On A Journal, Maybe A Hand-me-down; I Had Three Older Siblings. My First Entries Are In The Handwriting Of The Sister Closets In Age (5 Years My Senior). She Must Have Gotten Tired Of My Dictations Because She Gave Up And Then My Blocky Scrawl Shows Up. I Wrote Plays As A Kid Mostly.

I'm A Woman, But I've Been A Sexist, Too.

Writers Aren't Born Properly Labeled So It Is Hard To Know One When One Appears.

Each Genre Has Something To Teach Me About The Others. Not All The Lessons Are Transferable, But Many Of The Most Important Ones Are.