I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.