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Two Questions Form The Foundation Of All Novels: "what If?" And "what Next?" (a Third Question, "what Now?", Is One The Author Asks Himself Every 10 Minutes Or So; But It's More A Cry Than A Question.) Every Novel Begins With The Speculative Question, What If "x" Happened? That's How You Start.

Of All Human Lamentations, Without Doubt, The Most Common Is If Only I Had Known. But We Can't Know, And So Days Of Death And Fire So Often Begin No Differently Than Those Of Love And Warmth.

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The Tactics...no, Amateurs Discuss Tactics,.... Professional Soldiers Study Logistics.

Learn To Write The Same Way You Learn To Play Golf. You Do It And Keep Doing It Until You Get It Right.