Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.
