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Anthology Quote by Lynn Abbey

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“Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.”

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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…

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I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

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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…

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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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During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to…

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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…

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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

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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.

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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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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,…

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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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