DYLAN LANDIS: When I write, I would say I look for trouble. I look for tension. I look for conflict. I look for dark rather than light. I mean it's great to get lightness into a body of work, but you want to look for where people are in conflict. In dialogue, I try never to let someone answer a question directly, because that's where you get sparks. That's where you learn more about someone's character. And anytime you get conflict or people engaging in ways that are antagonistic, people have to make choices about how they're going to behave, and that's how you get to know character more deeply.