Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
Never mistake motive for action.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.