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" My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. "
Lynn Abbey
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" It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. "
Lynn Abbey
Style
Comfortable
Possible
" I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. "
Lynn Abbey
Free Will
Free
Surprises
" That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. "
Lynn Abbey
Me
Discourage
Bedrock
" 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. "
Lynn Abbey
Stories
Really
Short
" 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. "
Lynn Abbey
Believe
Magical
Hold
" I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. "
Lynn Abbey
Skills
Editing
First
" When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. "
Lynn Abbey
Past
Writing
Books
" A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. "
Lynn Abbey
Story
Enough
Good
" 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. "
Lynn Abbey
Universe
Words
You
" One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. "
Lynn Abbey
Great
Trivia
Historical
" I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. "
Lynn Abbey
Writer
Fantasy
I Can
" It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. "
Lynn Abbey
Long Time
Time
Long
" The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. "
Lynn Abbey
Wrong
Go
Things
" 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. "
Lynn Abbey
Trying
Know
Ideas
" I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. "
Lynn Abbey
Discouragement
Dense
" No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. "
Lynn Abbey
More
Your
Try
" There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. "
Lynn Abbey
Round
Unexpected
Applause
" It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. "
Lynn Abbey
Me
Years
Reach
" During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. "
Lynn Abbey
Here
Cultures
Religions
" I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. "
Lynn Abbey
Ideas
Risk
Want
" When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. "
Lynn Abbey
Heartbeat
Idea
Vague
" I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. "
Lynn Abbey
Time
End
Breath
" 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. "
Lynn Abbey
More
Commitment
Two
" I'm always trolling for trivia. "
Lynn Abbey
Always
Trivia
" Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. "
Lynn Abbey
Whatever
Feet
Open
" I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. "
Lynn Abbey
Written
Write
Lot
" Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. "
Lynn Abbey
Long
Ideas
Down