Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?