Lynn Abbey

(51 votes)   A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

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(49 votes)   Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

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(46 votes)   I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

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(44 votes)   Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

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(44 votes)   There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

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(42 votes)   I'm always trolling for trivia.

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(39 votes)   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.

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(39 votes)   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.

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(39 votes)   Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

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(38 votes)   I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

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(38 votes)   It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

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(38 votes)   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.

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(37 votes)   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.

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(36 votes)   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.

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(32 votes)   It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

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