Uh, roughly about when I grasped you could make words with letters to explain the stuff that went on in your head. I quickly learned not to show this to grownups.

It's covered in illegal things, pointy things, an empty pack of cloves, several bottles of nail polish, bits of wire and a few hand tools, and an overflowing ashtray. And there's a toy scorpion locked in mortal combat with a toy Tyrannosaurus Rex. And a squirt bottle to fend off cats. The squirt bottle is largely useless.

The American south. It gave me lots of incoherent rage, exasperation, and anti-Christianity to use later. And some very useful settings.

It's a movie in which you play all the parts, with an unlimited budget, and anything goes. You can have anything you want, anytime you want, any way you want. It's godhood. I can't imagine anything more delicious or more addictive than that.

The multiverse. They're the reason for the entire mission. They are the other half of this ritual. Writing is masturbation, but sharing it...that's the sex, really, isn't it?

Clive Barker, Frank Herbert, John Gardner, Dennis Cooper, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen King, Sheri S. Tepper, Jim Butcher, Madeline L'Engle, Storm Constantine, Stephen Baxter, William Burroughs, Douglas Adams, Andrew Vachss, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess.

Tending cats, plants, Lair, and zombies. Recreational surgery. Experiments. Art projects. Dreadlock maintenance. Entirely too much horror and sci-fi viewing in order to avoid actual chores.

In most cases I get "film" and when it won't leave my head and I see more and more of it each time, longer, more detailed, I write it down. Sometimes I get the next scene (or one a hundred pages later) and rinse, repeat, until I have all of it I'm going to get. Stitch it together the best I can. Sharpen it accordingly.

In some cases I set parameters and essentially hit "run program" and write down the result.

They are all sigils, meant to cause and contain magick. Sometimes it works almost too well.

Next is getting Hero's Torch ready for print. Spaceships, pretty boys, gore, sex, blasphemy, and a few of my other favorite things. After that I plan to release Psychomotor Agitation: A Vivisection in 2015, three digital volumes to be followed by a single-volume print edition.