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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Alan Dean Foster

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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Art Culture Difference Wide Politics Travel
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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Conglomerate Diversity Feel International Made Multimedia Overwhelming Triumph
So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Bit Crap Day Every Keep Little Look Result Write

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