LOL--isn't it wonderful when we can work out passions into our work? I've tried to keep myself flexible over the years, but now that I'm in a position, I have to actually settle down and do one thing for a while; it's kinda maddening, so I've been casting about to find the way to do it without entirely boxing myself into one period or one genre.

TBH, I don't know - writing the papers wasn't related to work as I was an independent scholar for about 6 years after I graduated - writing papers in my spare time. I've yet to have a job that allows me to indulge my writing...

And the fic does infect--it's like the simplest video game/VR environment in the universe...

Oh yes! I swore I'd only write one story, back in Jan 2007... Since then I've written the equivalent of about 6 full length novels!