I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
