Why Did The Wise Guys Always Accuse

I Take Real People And Put Them In Extraordinary Situations.

When I Write, I Never Think Of Segments As Chapters; I Think Of Them As Scenes. I Always Visualize Them In My Mind. Then I Try To Get The Scene Down On Paper As Closely As I Can. That's The One Thing That Readers Don't See - What You Have In Your Mind. The Reader Can Only See What You Get On The Page.

They Don't Actually Want You To Do Your Own Thing, Not Unless It's Their Thing Too.

I Had My Bully, And It Was Excruciating. Not Only The Bully, But The Intimidation I Felt.

I Use A Lot Of Similes And Metaphors When I Work, Simply Because It's My Best Way Of Describing A Building Or A Scene. I'm Terrible At Describing Landscapes - Trees, Buildings. The Inanimate Things Don't Interest Me: I Always Think, "oh, No, Here Comes Another Building I Have To Describe." So I Usually Use A Simile Or Metaphor.