Lynn Abbey Citas

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

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  Writing, Intuition, Stories

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• 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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  Magic, Culture, Literature

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• Las ideas no son mágicas; lo único difícil es aferrarse a una el tiempo suficiente para escribirla.

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  Ideas, Long, Magic

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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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  Successful, Editing, Editors

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• 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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  Writing, Literature, Stories

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• It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

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  Style, Literature, Structure

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• No hay nada comparable a un aplauso inesperado.

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  Literature, Unexpected, Applause

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• 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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  Creating, Half, Stories

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• No me siento limitado por ser un escritor de género. Cualquier historia que pueda imaginar, la puedo convertir en una novela fantástica y probablemente conseguir que la publiquen.

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  Fantasy Novels, Stories, Literature

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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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  Book, Writing, Support

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• 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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  Commitment, Writing, Two

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• Im always trolling for trivia.

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  Literature, Trivia

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• 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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  Creer, Libro, Escribir

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• I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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  Discouragement, Dense

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• El dinero puede ser decente, pero realmente no recomiendo la vía del trabajo por encargo para entrar en el mundo editorial. Demasiadas cosas pueden salir mal.

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  Literature, Decent, Publishing

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• 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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  Escribir, pensar, literatura

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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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  Editors, Feet, Literature

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• For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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  Writing, Stories, Novel

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• That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

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  Writing, Discouraging, Blinded

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• I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

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  Book, Writing, Orphan

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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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  Jumping, Genre Is, Editors

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• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

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  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• 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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  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

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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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  Writing, Ideas, Always Trying

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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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  Years, Challenges, Mark

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