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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I write books to find out about things.

I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?