When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.