I love insects. They are amazing.
I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.
I don't read reviews.
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.