Vicki Hinze, ©2008
Power.
We hear a lot about it. We’re taught from an early age to seek and seize it. We’re warned against being hungry for it to the point of our own stupidity. We see those chasing after it, those willing to sell their souls for it, and we often hear it [...]

 
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 [...]