Even True Believers Had Consciences, Too Bad.

Well, It's A Communist Country, And The Communists Do Not Reward Personal Initiative...except By Execution.

Suspense Is Achieved By Information Control: What You Know. What The Reader Knows. What The Characters Know.

In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them. They Tried To Classify Everything.

Wars Are Begun By Frightened Men.

Keep At It! The One Talent That's Indispensable To A Writer Is Persistence. You Must Write The Book, Else There Is No Book. It Will Not Finish Itself. Do Not Try To Commit Art. Just Tell The Damned Story.