“There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.”

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published.

I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape–fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?

And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is.

Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.

Every actor has his own identity. I don’t aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

I try to be that inspiration, you know. It’s not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it’s not. People don’t have to be afraid of it; they don’t have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.

I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists.