Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start