Do you have any writerly motivation to spare that you can send over in waves? I'm taking an intermediate fiction writing class this term and I'm writing for the first time in ages, I'm going to need all the motivation I can get. (Also if you have good advi

Hmm, motivation is an interesting question. I usually get questions about inspiration which is a very different thing. I always found classes helpful because I’m very into someone giving me a deadline. If that doesn’t do it, music is huge for me, finding the thing in the story you love and holding onto it with both hands. I also find that listening to Hamilton motivates the hell out of me. 

I get a lot of details from research and you never really know what you’ll use and what you’ll discard. (You discard much more than you use.) So if you’re building a sub-aquatic society, you may want to get heavy into marine biology and climatology and… look ima be real, I’m terrified of the ocean so I am extremely ill-equipped to handle this question.