Andy Weir

there wouldn't necessarily be much sunlight reaching the ground.

So the life forms that live there would probably not rely on sight.

So why would you evolve eyes in the dark?

And so, you know, this is bit by bit how things came together.

So that was fun.

Nobody wants to read a 40 page Wikipedia article on Iridian biology.

So I just, I have to just, the hardest part for me is like, I came up with a bunch of cool stuff and now I don't get to tell like 90% of it.

Like I worked out how Iridian muscles work.

Like I worked out all this crap.

Yeah, I love coming up with the idea.

And I love when I'm done writing the idea.

And I love receiving praise.

How do you keep yourself going?

Well, it's not like I just wake up and weep for half an hour.

It's just hard work.

You know, it's like I said, it's hard work.

I have to like kind of like make a bunch of rules for myself.

So when I'm working on a first draft, I make a rule.

OK, I got to write a thousand words a day.

And until I make my words, there's a bunch of