User blog comment:Tanglefrost/Grenada Q&A!/@comment-37687752-20190103143302/@comment-5277627-20190104052402

1) Premieres are always the hardest because you have to introduce every character, set up base alliances, and basically set everything up for the season. I've never struggled  more with episodes than premieres.

2) When I originally wrote Ashanda, she was gonna be a kind of middle player who didn't rock the boat, but as her first-episode actions became more villainous, I ran with an OTT delusional drama-loving psycho and it was perfect.

3) Honestly they just pop into my head. I have a rough idea of what the episode is gonna be about, the central fights, characters and such. If a person is gonna be a main star in the episode, I usually give them the episode title. So I think about things they're likely to say, or a quote that could come from one of the central events.