Andy Weir

because we have nuclear power plants, how much CO2 and pollutants are not in the air because of the percentage of the global power network that's provided by nuclear power plants.

Humanity has an inherent desire to do good by other humans.

So if you have any sort of technology, there'll be one guy who goes like, you know what, we could kill a lot of people with this.

And there'd be like 50 other guys who come up with interesting ways to improve people's lives with it.

I don't know if this is advice I was given, but in general, it's a contraindicated.

You should never be writing in your mind a series of books.

You should always be writing one book.

So don't be thinking like, oh, in book one, this is going to happen.

And I'm setting up for book two where this will happen.

And then book three, because the end result is you'll just end up with a crappy book.

That's just basically a really, really long prologue to some other book.

Write the story.

And if it ends up taking more than one book, okay, but don't.

And the last thing you want to do is say, I've got this awesome idea, but I don't want to put it in this book because I want that to be in the next book.

It's like, no, put it in that book.

Now that book is even more awesome.

Do you have another favorite tip for aspiring writers?

I have actually like three things that I like to tell any aspiring writers.

Number one, to be a writer, you have to write.

It's not enough to daydream.