The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.