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.

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.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Aspire Book Fiction Lot Start Write
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.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Adventure Animal Children
The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Goal Humans Writing
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.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Book Moving New Publish Writing
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Feelings Ideas People
I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR

Actually Fooling Move Professional Story Writing

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