When it comes to writing fiction, I'm not bad at descriptions - I have that clinical knack of saying what's there precisely, quickly, and vividly - but what I think I'm actually good at - the hook that makes me want to write stories - is dialogue.

I get plenty of rough story ideas just from being a human planetside. But the stories I start - I basically always start them as conversations. The easiest way for me to write a story is to write one or more conversations between characters, then fill in with setting and action details.