Andy Weir

Right.

I think of writing as being kind of like gardening.

You do it because you like the result.

I like having the end result of having this beautiful garden, lots of flowers, trees, shrubs, everywhere I wanted.

Everything worked out exactly the way I wanted.

But actually when you're digging the ditches and pulling the weeds and you're

back-breaking labor of doing every step of it, it's not pleasant.

You do it because you want the result.

And so that's the kind of writer I am anyway.

Just a side note, can we swear on your show?

yeah of course okay so fuck you i hate i hate doing the work if i enjoyed doing the work like you did i would be so much more prolific i just oh man no i i for me the hardest part of writing is sitting my lazy ass down and writing like what's that old joke two guys at a bar one of them says i'm i'm writing a novel and the other one says yeah neither am i

No, just me.

I mean, your stories are so original.

I would actually disagree with you there, believe it or not.

I don't think my stories are that original.

I've accidentally come up with my own way of telling stories.

well trodden ground stories.

So I'm a hard sci-fi author.

I like to stick to real science as much as possible.

And that's just because I'm a science dork.