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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Centuries Common Folk Last Names

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I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Because Dealing Events Every Fairly Give Information Like Manuscript Much Myself Need Outline Pages Projected Real Still Two Used

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I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Cook Course Hands Hard Horseback Knees Like Listen Now Occasionally Only Opera Read Ride Sometimes Used

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I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Any Any Given Time Attend Career Conventions Else Find Given How Important Industry Journeyman More Nothing Other Out Specialized Stages Than Think Time Useful Working Writer I Think

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I'm not a good collaborator in general.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Collaborator General Good

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If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Enough Go Me Page Real Surprise Then

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Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Odd Philosophy Vampire

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Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Attending Break Conventions Isolation Necessary Nice Off Providing Put Some Them Writer Writing

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Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: Characters Create How Involved Plots Stories

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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

~Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Topics: About Commercial Editors Few Goals Goodness Heresy Much Thank Thank Goodness Too Very Worry

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1942

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