For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You want magic to feel real.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.

Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.