Writers: Are you a Face-hugger, a Grub, a Maggot, Godzilla, or What?

(The writer Sir Tessa, in a contemplative moment, reciting Proust to a captive audience.)

The Emerging Writer interview I conducted for Clarkesworld had an unexpected side effect–putting writers in mind of how they emerged, or how they would like to emerge; similar in a way to the secret I revealed in this blog post, about how writers molt.

Sir Tessa instigated it, of course, with this interpretation of emerging: "I like the idea of 'emerging'. It puts me in mind of the headhuggers in Alien...