American - Author | September 18, 1948 -
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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