I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

