Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

And quite often what else they have to put in is Not Much.

To me, the answer there is to make a stack of nifty ideas and see where they will go around the edges of another story, because we don't have enough stories bristling with nifty ideas. Unfortunately a great many of the people who attempt to take this approach have, in my opinion, insufficient nift. This is possibly because I am a mean and judgmental person.