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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.