Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

I'm always looking for good things to do.