Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual. - Stephen King

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.