Biggest influence: my mother.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

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.

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.