John Scalzi's Big Idea

I wrote a piece for John Scalzi's Big Idea for The Troupe about a month or two ago, and it's gone live today!

I keep reading accounts I've written for how I got the idea for The Troupe. All of them are different, and all of them are true. Books aren't linear. They calcify, like crystals in an oven, perhaps baked by cancer-riddled chemistry teachers who use their personal afflictions to feed the rage and vanity that's been metastasizing inside of them for years on en-

Okay, wait. That's something else entirely.

Yeah, read The Big Idea.