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I'm always trolling for trivia.

~Lynn Abbey

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If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

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Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

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I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1948

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