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You Learn To Write The Same Way You Learn To Play Golf... You Do It, And Keep Doing It Until You Get It Right. A Lot Of People Think Something Mystical Happens To You, That Maybe The Muse Kisses You On The Ear. But Writing Isn’t Divinely Inspired – It’s Hard Work.

I Think About The Characters I've Created And Then I Sit Down And Start Typing And See What They Will Do. There's A Lot Of Subconscious Thought That Goes On. It Amazes Me To Find Out, A Few Chapters Later, Why I Put Someone In A Certain Place When I Did. It's Spooky.

No Matter What You Or Anyone Else Does, There Will Be Someone Who Says That There's Something Bad About It.

Every Novel Begins With The Speculative Question, What If "x" Happened? That's How You Start.

Back In Pre-revolutionary America Cruel And Unusual Punishment Meant The Rack And Burning At The Stake... In More Recent Rulings It Has Been Taken To Mean The Absence Of Cable Television And Denial Of Sex-change Operations, Or Just Overcrowding In The Prisons.