I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!
I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.
I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I can make the guy absolutely real and absolutely believable to myself. And then, I go to work on doing that for other people.
Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven. . . it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.
Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream. . . and desire is part of that dream.
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.