I came at writing ass backwards from everybody else I've ever heard of, so it's always interesting to see how people got here. [I was afraid to read Selkie #2 because my heart couldn't take it.] But yeah, personal experience is all we have to work with; the emotions make it real. You can do everything else incredibly well, but without any juice, it doesn't matter.

Or at least that's why Tom Clancy bores me. :) Seriously, there's only so much technoporn I can read.