Without a doubt, authorship is a sword of multiple uses.  It can be sharp and crisp with wit and come hither skills, sucking a reader into a nonstop marathon of reading, or it can be dull and perform no task other than to irritate the reader by presenting nothing more than a hodgepodge of words unskilllfully strung together.  And the dull edge of the sword is every author's greatest fear.

We often lay awake at night visualizing scenes in our head, grasping at bits of dialog we create to go along with the movie scenes spinning in our mind, and then hope we can remember them until morning.  Those are sleepless nights.  It became apparent midway through my book, "A Deadly Suggestion" that a notebook beside the bed was an absolute necessity, just to put down key words so all the pondering and planning of scenes would all come back to me with my second sip of coffee in the morning. 

I think the most thrilling point in a book is that one moment, that one ah-hah when your fingers are flying and you truly know exactly how your book will end.  Your blood pressure surely raises, your heart rate pounds and you become one with your book, your characters, the ending.  That in a nutshell is when you truly know your book is going to be a winner.