That's what character is, it's in the trying.
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.
I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.
I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality