- Nov 07, 2020
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- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
- Discouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
- Discourage
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- Nov 07, 2020
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trolling for trivia.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
- Heartbeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020