Andy Weir describing how he wrote The Martian and film got made is very entertaining.He said, “I wanted to make sure dorks like me would enjoy it, so made it as scientifically accurate as possible”Here the play-by-play:▫️started writing full time in 1999 after getting fired from AOL (which had just merged with Netscape)▫️he was a programmer and had a ton of stock options…because he was fired, had 6 months to excercise them and sold at AOL’s peak before bubble popped▫️spent 3 years on book ideas