If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.