Sometimes you can't see what the problem is until you go close, until you look deep inside. It's when you look beyond the edge of what you think you … - J. Michael Straczynski

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

It’s like you’ve created an entirely new level of fuckedupedness that I’ve never even seen before.

The answer, of course, was that the stories had been written as well as could be expected given the tools I had when I wrote them. Every writer starts with the same toolbox, which at most might contain a screwdriver and a pair of rusty pliers, and there’s not much you can make with that. Each finished story adds a new tool to the box that assists in the construction of better stories going forward, and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the prior work.