100 Percent, Doc

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The thing which most makes me want to write is the lab aspect of it: trying to figure out why people do the things they do. As a weird kid (don't most of us think we were weird kids?) I was constantly blindsided by actions and reactions from my parents and my peers, and I began to tell myself stories about why that behavior. As I grew older I became less interested in reverse engineering human behavior ("why did that kid kick me in the shin and run away?") and more interested in seeing what effects a given situation might have on a given person (The Stone War was written, in part, as a way of explaining my passion for New York City and in part as an exploration of what the destruction of what you love can do to you).

I also write because the process, as painful as it sometimes is, is so much fun.