Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.