Lynn Abbey

(14 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

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(12 votes)   Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

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(12 votes)   I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

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(12 votes)   One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

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(11 votes)   For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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(10 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

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(9 votes)   I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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.

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