If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

