You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.