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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write society as I see and understand it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can imagine something, it will be.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020