 The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn`t always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they`re more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. I think it`s a short story writer`s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
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It does appear that I`ve been doing nothing but scribbling, but some of the books were written a while back, and have only just gone into print.
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I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
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Well, to be honest I think I`m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it`s not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven`t written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody`s a publisher.
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Why my interest in writers? Well, I`m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it`s like to write. I`m interested in the creative process. I`m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
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You don`t have to fight for your life anymore. You`re starting a new one.
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Which, of course, isn`t the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
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To me, it`s all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I`m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
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`Made it as a writer`? I`m still wondering if I`ve made it as a writer. I`ve made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I`m still waiting for that big breakthrough.
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