Savor Singapore Vermicelli with Charles Stross as we discuss the twelve "novel-shaped objects" he wrote before making his first professional sale, what changed in his life which meant instead of taking three years to write one novel he could write three novels in one year, why back at the beginning of his career he considered himself the "failure to launch" of the <em>Interzone</em> generation of writers (and how that changed), how to best take the temperature of critique group criticism, why it was time to wrap up his Laundry Files series (and who he had to become in order to be able to write that finale), the way the opening sentence of an as yet unfinished novel became the seed for a new series in progress, how his love for Harry Harrison's <em>Stainless Steel Rat</em> novels ties into his next project, the evolving nature of convention-going for long-time attendees, and much more.
