We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

Starships are all work and no fun.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.