I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.