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Living gives you a better understanding of life.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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Business Convention Fantasy Make Purpose Usually World Year
I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Become Character Deep Hope Personality Round
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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All Difficult Get Inside Mind Terrorist
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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Basketball Divide Hobby Least Once Play Traditional Year
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Become Besides Character Involve Love Mistake Reader Way
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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Another Better Crazy Cure Feel Make One Thing Yourself
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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exchange Give Innocent Life Normal People Protect See
When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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Concentration Connect Level Personal Special Effect
So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Already Know Hard Me New Read Rewrite Something
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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