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I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.