Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].
A story is built on characters and reasons.
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?
Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.