I am fascinated by craft and people’s personal processes for creating projects that are as complex as enterprise software or a Beatle’s or Brian Eno record. Jon’s inner process is a story in itself!
“I think the only reason I’ve ever found success at anything is because I greatly underestimate the amount of work something takes and so I just start.”
Deconstructing a Genre
For a year, I worked near a Barnes & Noble, so every couple of weeks I would pick up one of the pulp fiction magazines, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Gradually, I was shifting from science fiction, a genre that seems to be increasingly inhabited by authors whose stories don’t require any science or “what if” universes to work (and which thus entirely fail the entry bar), to mysteries. I was liking exploring the various types, including those that have no mystery at all, and studying how they are constructed. Gradually I became interested in trying my hand. I’d already written a few and I…
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Ethan Freckleton 