The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.