Dull FAQs You Would Never Ask

Of course, you mean aside from my startlingly good looks.

Foremost, I don’t know of any other writer who can match my expertise on a Parcheesi board. Just ask Elon Musk! However, there are other differences, although less significant.

I focus on who people are, no matter which story they live, but I don’t do so because I want to. I do so because that’s the only way I can see them, the only way I can see you. All of our stories, yours and mine, are lived from the heart, from our feelings, so to write about terrified people or laughing people or whatever, I must become each of them in turn. Man, woman, adult, child. Doesn’t matter. When I write about a person in a situation I become that person in that situation. Good guy, bad guy, black, white. Only when I become my character can you, my superior reader, live through her/his complications as she lives it, as he lives it.

That is the measure of my success. To the degree that you feel what a character feels and think what a character thinks—to the degree that you can respond as does the character—to that degree and only to that degree can I succeed.

Other writers attempt to exceed the same threshold; I’m not alone in my attempt. But there are few of us. Too few willing to separate ourselves from whatever other writers are doing. Follow the trend. Make some bucks.