I think the last tool we need as writers of fiction or poetry is logic. I labored for years, in vain, trying to write stories that made sense, that had a clear and coherent meaning and form which I could understand with my intellect before I had created it. Good fiction comes from the part of us that we cannot see or control or understand. Only after we have thrashed around in that blindness and brought forth the slippery fish of reality in the grasping hands of our prose, and landed the thing on the page only then does thought and intellect come into the process. Vision is blind and hot; revision is cool and calculating. Only when I began to come to terms with that did I begin to write stories that were viable. -Thomas E. Kennedy, author of Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction