When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.
I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.
As science-fiction was what I read in college, it was natural that I should be tempted to write it. So I did, and continued to do so, even while I was co-authoring mysteries with my husband Evan.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.