"A good short-story writer has an instinct for……" — Lynn Abbey
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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29 Quotes by Lynn Abbey
Lynn Abbey has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring…
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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…
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end…
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During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as…
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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the…
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as…
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I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific…
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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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…
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means…
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
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I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
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