The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.