There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.
When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Proportion is the heart of beauty.
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.