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> [It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/it-took-me-about-12-years-to-reach-my-million-word-mark-the-challenge/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

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## More by Lynn Abbey

> [Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/editors-of-open-anthologies-actively-seek-submissions-from-all-comers/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/neophyte-writers-tend-to-believe-that-there-is-something-magical/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/i-write-sets-of-books-but-i-ve-also-written-a-lot-of-orphans/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/once-you-ve-invested-hundreds-of-hours-in-creating-a-coherent/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/a-good-short-story-writer-has-an-instinct-for-sketching-in-just/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/during-the-many-centuries-that-magic-here-on-this-planet-was-presumed/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/my-writing-has-to-support-more-than-my-research-habit-but-i-love-to/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/ideas-aren-t-magical-the-only-tricky-part-is-holding-on-to-one-long/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/it-took-me-about-12-years-to-reach-my-million-word-mark-the-challenge/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/it-s-been-a-long-time-since-i-ve-written-old-fashioned-sword-and/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/short-story-writing-requires-an-exquisite-sense-of-balance-novelists/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/for-me-writing-a-short-story-is-much-much-harder-than-writing-a-novel/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/i-m-dense-when-it-comes-to-discouragement/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/i-think-my-prose-reads-as-if-english-were-my-second-language-by-the/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

> [That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-abbey/that-bedrock-faith-that-i-could-write-was-what-blinded-me-to-attempts/)

[Lynn Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-abbey/)

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