I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
