I Think It's A Very Bad Idea

She Looks At Herself In The Mirror. The Idea Is To Look Sexy Again. And For Whom Exactly? Yourself, Of Course. Yes, Well, That's All Wonderfully Self-affirming And Very Strong-minded As Any Decent Woman Should Be These Days, But Let's Just Face Facts Here And Say That When A Woman - No, When A Person Is Thinking About Feeling Sexy, It Is Always With The Idea Of Someone Else In Mind.

Without Work, So Much Of One's Identity Just Evaporates.

It Is Really Irritating To Work With Irritating People

I Can't Trace Thematic Similarities Between Then We Came To The End And The Unnamed To A Life Event; I Think It's More Just A Natural Progression As A Writer. Everything Changes In The Second Book - Tonally, Character-wise, Situationally - And On Top Of That, I Think I Wanted A Challenge. I Wanted To See If I Could Do It.

Comedy Is Like Fictional Charm. It's The Charm Of Fiction. Or The Charisma Of Fiction. When You Meet Somebody Who's Immediately Charismatic, You're Attracted To That Person. And In Fiction It's Got To Come Out In Either One Of Two Ways: In The Prose Itself, And You're Hooked Immediately Because You Never Want To Leave Such A Colorful And Penetrating World. Or, It's Simply Being A Funny Writer.