The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank s...
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.