![]() ![]() TQ: What has influenced / influences your writing? As much as I love writing, it still feels like a largely selfish endeavor, one that ultimately has to defer to parenthood and, just as importantly, active local/state/national work on climate change. KSW: Finding a way to make writing fit in with the larger concerns of my life (family, other employment, climate policy work). TQ: What is the most challenging thing for you about writing? I find this still allows for serendipity, which is what a lot of writers are afraid of when they think of planning. ![]() ![]() I'm comfortable 'pantsing' a short story, but for longer works I prefer a hybrid approach: working out characterization and the plot it implies upfront, building out disparate scenes with an eye for their internal logic/causal chain based on characterization, etc. TQ: Are you a plotter, a pantser or a hybrid? Heroes crash landing on distant landscapes, zombie tentacles fighting each other. Kawai Strong Washburn: Thank you for having me! In middle school I wrote a few short science fiction stories that I remember, more or less. ![]() What is the first fiction piece you remember writing? ![]()
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