One of the ideas readers suggested was posting parts of my writing.  I found this section in my first book  that illustrates  a bit of Sophia's character.    Hope you enjoy reading this!
 
The stoplight turned green and the steel blue BMW darted down the ramp onto the toll way.  Sophia hummed as she picked her spot in the far left lane and slid into it with precision.   As she neared the tollbooth lane, she zeroed in on a black Camaro.

 She held her breath as she passed through the tollbooth, then grinned. I won, she thought while accelerating back into the center lane. Tollbooth match ups had been more fun when people had to throw change into the bin, but the game still worked with the E‑ZPass lanes.  Exiting off the tollway, she sped down a wide boulevard and then turned into the office parking deck.      

Zipping into the first open parking space, she popped out, reaching in the back for her laptop bag.  She dashed over and pushed the elevator button.
 
Sophia took a deep breath as she waited. It was Tuesday -- assignment day at Personna Magazine.  Normally, she looked forward to starting out on, as she called it, “a new journalistic adventure”.   But her last couple of assignments had been disappointing, mostly “fluff” stories on friendly people who coveted publicity and made it very easy for her -- sometimes too easy -- almost interviewing themselves, even prompting her with questions.  Sometimes it seemed that all she had to do is smile, which didn’t give her much opportunity for her to prove her intellectual or research skills.

She weighted the merits of asking Ellie, her editor, about a more challenging assignment.  As she entered the elevator, she remembered her editor’s stern look when discussing her last article, a piece on an aspiring movie director.  

“Your subjects love to talk with you because you exude a natural curiosity about people.  You seem to capture the image they are trying to create.  But the readers also want to see the dark side of these people. Be more dimensional.”
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Relatively new at the journalism business, Sophia had used her natural skills to first network into the job itself, then to work up from a research assistant to a writing position.  She still was regarded as a rookie, but when she compared articles, she thought her writing was every bit as good as some of the senior staff who worked on the more controversial and high profile assignments. How could she prove herself if she didn’t have a tough assignment? Yes, she had convinced herself.  She needed to speak up today.
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