Raymond E. Feist

You know?

Um, and then beyond that, you have to understand how to do it in a specific sense for what your desires are as a creative person.

I tell anybody, I can't teach anyone how to write.

Nobody can teach you how to write.

People can help you learn to write because anybody who's not suffering a learning disability can learn to write a coherent English sentence or coherent German sentence or Japanese, depending on where you are.

Nobody can teach you how to fabricate a story.

And that's what makes the difference.

You know, if you're, you're either a storyteller or you're not.

And, you know, the number of times I've had people say, I have this great idea for a story, but I just don't know how to write it.

Well, everybody's got a great idea for a story.

We all daydream.

We all wonder what if.

We all speculate in our minds.

It's the writers who learn how to fabricate those ideas and massage them into stories.

Actually, to be honest, I have a vision issue.

So I don't read a lot when I'm done working all day in front of the computer.

But I just reread, just because it's a delightful book, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens.

I had seen the TV adaptation and enjoyed it tremendously.

And then it reminded me that I hadn't read the book since it was originally published, what, 20 years ago.

So I...