I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.
Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?
I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.