What you get for free

Every writer has something - some part of writing, however tiny - that comes easily (or at least, more easily than the rest of it). For some it's action scenes; for others, it's deep characterization; for others it's plot or dialog or structure or theme. But there's always something.

What this means is that, for the first couple of stories or novels or X-many-thousand words, one can safely ignore the freebie and concentrate on learning all the other stuff that one didn't get for free. More than t