Andy Weir

I liked my coworkers.

I liked my bosses.

My company was really good.

Now I'm married and I have an adorable baby.

But at the time I was single.

And so I left that social environment where I'm like this respected pseudo leader and like everybody likes me and I go in every day and I have all this social interaction to being by myself

just in my home office typing at my computer like with nobody to talk to all day and it was it was it was an adjustment i would still like go to lunch with my former co-workers you know like i'd be like hey when are you guys going to lunch let me know i'm gonna go hang out with you

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When it came out in theaters, they did a company-wide trip.

The whole company went and rented out an entire theater to watch The Martian, and they invited me, and of course I went.

And so, yeah, I mean, it was so cool.

Well, I definitely didn't start off good at it.

I didn't just write The Martian one day and that was like the first thing I wrote.

I had probably written a total of a million words

no exaggeration of other crap before I wrote The Martian.

And just like everybody else, when I started, I sucked.

I am not a phenom or some sort of gifted child.

I just did a lot of practice and work.

You've got to suck for a long time at a skill before you kind of start to not suck a little bit.

Like for 20 years, I was just writing.