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

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

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.