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I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

~Carol Berg

Topics: Come Coworkers Engineer Engineers Fairly Family Former Friends Hobby Life Lifelong Math Musicians My Life Ordinary Ordinary Person Over Person Reader Software Surprised Take Teacher Teachers Them Think Took Up Well Wonderful Writing I Think

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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Bad Craft Difference Figure Genres Good Good Writing Learn Many Out Read Writing

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There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!

~Carol Berg

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I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Best Day Drill Elementary English Every Every Day Every Night Good Grammar Had Hated High High School Lot Night Often Only Part Read Really Required School Teachers Through Too Training Were Which Writing

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I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

~Carol Berg

Topics: About Amber Books First Five Great Great Idea Had He Idea Love Reality Roger Would Written

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At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Board Book Conventions Count Ever Fiction First Guy His Me Out Promoting Sandwich Saw Science Science Fiction Wearing

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Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Angst Call Dark Endings High Hopeful Like Reviewers Satisfying Some Stakes Stories Think Violence Yes

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I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Age Because Been Began Bone Breath Brink Britain Dark Enjoy Flesh Generally Geography Match Much Other Purposely Roman Sense Set Something Spirit Start Than Thinking Very Which World

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For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Because Began Books Capital Chose Cold Desert Empire Great Image Market Miserable Mountains Opening Quickly Riding Scene Set Slave Summer Wanted

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My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

~Carol Berg

Topics: Because Certainly College Copy Creates Designed Ever Five Gave Greatest Greatest Thing He Her History Languages Lord Lord Of The Rings Me Mythology Own People Read Real Rings Six Some Some People Thing Think Though Times Vivid World Written I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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