Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Never complain and never explain.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.