There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
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Barry B. Longyear6 quotes“There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.”
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published.
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Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.
Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape–fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.
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