Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.
There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.