It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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