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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing... →
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of... →
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's... →
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate... →
G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real... →
Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' -... →
I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder... →
I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe.... →
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just... →
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at... →
I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by... →