“I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worke...” — Karen Traviss Quote

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

See, I am not a writer. 'Nach Baliye' has its own creative team and a brilliant one at that. But I will give my own inputs if I feel I can improve something.

People mainly talk about the goals in football, so that's why people talk a lot about me, but a team is created with everybody's input.

Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on how to fix whatever isn't working in your writing will usually follow.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.