Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.