Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.
I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
Today, there are many, many ways to entertain people in one single videogame. And the Internet has made it so easy for people to ask for clues.
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.