Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.