I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.