Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.
I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.
I can be like that forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'
From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
