This is What Keeps Us Writing

Every time you sit down to write a book, there are so many choices you have to make: first person or third person point of view; past tense or present tense; which character would be the best narrator; where to even start the narrative—at the beginning of the actual story, at some point in the middle, or within one of the most dramatic scenes? And those are just a handful of the possibilities; multiply those by about one thousand, and you start getting close to the seemingly endless range of opt...