When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.
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