The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.
“As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!”
“For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.”