Good fiction creates its own reality.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.