Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

a great compliment, but I don't write books like hers.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.