I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.

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

Goal Humans Writing
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
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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