We all float down here!

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.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.