Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.