The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.