The rabbit analogy works because there are a zillion plot bunnies, an author can really “go down a rabbit hole”

On the changing of the naming of things

What do you call your favorite SF tropes?

What’s a rule of your world established in a previous book that complicated things for you in a later book?”

…for now the few notes and words there are reside in that bulging, never opened “Note for Stories” folder in the old beige file cabinet.

I have to wait until the right story occurs to me or strikes my fancy

Metaphors for adding new material into a work in progress

I’m intensely grateful for this opportunity to write and sell my books now and for me, indie publishing is the way to go.

Tropes. Can’t live without them, can’t kill them.