"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around."

- Stephen King, On Writing

I don't know if that's as poignant without the 94 pages of life-story that lead up to it, but here in the midst of 80-hour weeks working on Uru, it sure hit home.

I don't really like horror. I read Stephen King first because his characters make me care and second because his style is so accessible. If he can make me read a genre I'm not wired to enjoy on the power of those two things alone, well, there's something there.

If I could craft characters like King, build worlds like Tolkien, paint ideas like C.S. Lewis, and finish stories like M. Night Shyamalan...I'd still miss my wife and daughter while I was working.