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" Write a million words before thinking about getting published. "
Carol Berg
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" Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard. "
Carol Berg
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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
Riding
Desert
Great
" I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist. "
Carol Berg
Like
Lens
Great
" Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing. "
Carol Berg
Bad
Writing
Good
" I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things? "
Carol Berg
You
Never
Story
" 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
Way
Tell
You
" 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
Training
Best
Day
" 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
Dark
Enjoy
Start
" 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
Family
Writing
Life
" 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
People
World
College
" 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
First
Reality
Love
" 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
High
Yes
Violence
" Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work. "
Carol Berg
Eyes
Communication
Writing
" 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
Guy
Science
Book