- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is not formulaic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020