- Decaying
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
- Also
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were in the Peace Corps.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
- Best Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020