There is time to write and to live your life. Don't ignore your writing or use it as an excuse to hide from your life. Emotions, experiences, friends, family...they all give your writing depth--as long as you do write!

About Character:
Give him a compulsion and turn him loose!
Ray Bradbury

Why Write?

Our reasons for writing are the same reasons we have reading. Through writing we live other lives and explore places we can't go. We go alone, the journey is personal. If we do it right we discover something about ourselves. If we're lucky, our writings will find readers who appreciate the journey we have laid out for them.

By the way my Christmas trees are going up!