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And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.