That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.