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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 15th, 1953

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