Fantasy Novel Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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• Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
• No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few…
• 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…
• A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
• I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a…
• During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories…
• Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes…
• For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
• I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…
• I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
• I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of…
• I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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