It’s a Brave New World at the day job today. Yesterday’s events 100% supported my decision to base story squad dynamics on my former team. You write your catharsis. (I do, anyway). I’ve always been better at processing emotion through storytelling than, say, therapy. It IS my therapy.

While it’s true that you can’t make inferences about an author’s private life based on what or who they write about, I’ll say we all DO have core emotional or trope-specific themes that one can probably make SOM...