To write fiction, you must only keep answering the same question, and keep answering it well--what happens next? It doesn't seem like such a hard thing to do, really, but it is. I can't say why exactly. I have some guesses, but I don't reeally know. Perhaps it's because of that little word "well." What makes one answer a good answer, and what makes another one bad? I suppose that a good answer in feasable, logical, and still somehow unexpected. The feasable and logical criterion go quite well together. And the unexpected requirement wouldn't pose so much trouble were it in the absense of the other two. But together, all three leave few options.

So, why am I writing like a textbook? Fuck if I know. Just thinking out loud, I suppose.