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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.

Alan Dean Foster

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Better Chaos Freedom Just Light
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 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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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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Available Bad Future Historian Hoof Matte More
Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want
I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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