I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).