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And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

On 'Supernatural,' you go to a location and another location, and every week they do amazing things up there. You have to kind of hit the ground running and really start to look to the core of the story you're trying to tell.

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?

You just write about things that happen.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.