When I Have An Idea,

I Think My Prose Reads As If English Were My Second Language. By The Time I Get To The End Of A Paragraph, I'm Dodging Bullets And Gasping For Breath.

It's Possible To Become So Comfortable With One's Style And Structure That One Ceases To Grow.

When I'm Not Writing Or Tweaking My Computer, I Do Embroidery. When I'm Not Plunging Into The Past, Tweaking, Or Embroidering, I'm Reading Books About History, Computers, Or Embroidery.

Ideas Aren't Magical; The Only Tricky Part Is Holding On To One Long Enough To Get It Written Down.

I'm A Writer First And An Editor Second... Or Maybe Third Or Even Fourth. Successful Editing Requires A Very Specific Set Of Skills, And I Don't Claim To Have All Of Them At My Command.