But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.
I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
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