Did you enjoy writing Conan?
Yeah. It was fun, in the beginning at least. By the end… Conan is an unusual hero in that he changes. Robert Howard wrote stories in which Conan was a pre-teen boy. He wrote stories in which Conan was a white haired old man. It’s not usual for that sort of hero. That’s when a hero’s supposed to stay the same age and stay unchanged forever. I was able to pick a period that there wasn’t much said about him and do a little development, and it was fun. And then after a while it was just working in somebody else’s universe and I really wanted to get out of it and go on with my own stuff.
It seems that you have a really good time while you’re writing—
Oh yeah.
And we can tell you’re having fun.
Look, when I was caught with one of those books in school it was confiscated as trash and I was sent to the principal’s office. It was not the sort of thing I was supposed to bring in school. I could’ve brought softcore pornography and it wouldn’t have been any worse. I could’ve brought hardcore pornography and it would’ve been much worse. So yeah, I have a lot of fun with those books.
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