I really am a Motorcycle Mechanic. Back in the days before the Women’s Liberation Movement, I was working in my father’s diesel garage, cleaning parts and putting together – or taking apart – the things that I could physically manage. At home, I worked along side my brother, building motorcycles. I went to school for [...]

 
Writers connect characters to readers through emotions.  That makes it vital to understand them.  Otherwise, the odds diminish of depicting them accurately or of having the reader react to whatever is depicted the way the writer intends they react.
 
We live in an age of rage.  Where people once reacted with restraint, today they are far [...]