Author Interview: Radon Journal

As part of the publication of my poem “Conservation of Angular Momentum”, I was interviewed by Radon Journal. They had some tough questions!

Q: From what point do you prefer to begin working on your speculative works? Do you first imagine the idea your story will be based around? Or do you search for an emotional through-line first and build from that?

For most of my speculative works, I start with an idea and work backwards into the characters that might inhabit the world and then on to their motivations and emotions. I do think you usually need both the idea and the emotion for an effective speculative piece, though there are lots of ways to achieve this. I have pages of notes with ideas that I was never able to find an emotional through-line for, and so they sit, waiting. Perhaps they will be waiting for a very long time.

Find the whole interview here.