There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that’s the hardest part — convincing everybody you’re a genius.”
–Frederic Brown
According to his wife, Fredric William Brown hated to write. So he did everything he could to avoid it-he’d play his flute, challenge a friend to a game of chess, or tease Ming Tah, his Siamese cat. Plotting was a stickler, too. If Brown had trouble working out a certain story, he would hop on a long bus trip to nowhere and just sit and think and plot for days on end.
But when Brown finally did return home and plant himself in front of the typewriter, Jesus! the man did it all! Hardboiled mystery, paradoxical sf, short fantasy, black comedy-and sometimes, all of the above. That’s what makes Brown’s work so damned fun. He crossed genres like a demon, plotted like a madman, and continually stretched the boundaries of any given genre into his own strange, private geography. — Read more about this neglected writer from the source: Authors & Creators: Fredric Brown