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When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

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During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job. ↗

— George Stephen

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On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. ↗

— George Stephen

#cemetery #dance #dependent #despite #fact

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks. ↗

— George Stephen

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The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

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When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. ↗

— George Stephen

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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#articles #been #billy #biographies #both

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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