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Renee Carter Hall

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Renee Carter Hall writes fantasy and science fiction for adults who never quite grew up, with occasional excursions into dark fantasy, poetry, and stories for children and teens. Talking animals slip into her stories whenever they get a chance, and her work has been influenced by storytellers from a range of media, including Steven Spielberg, Ray Bradbury, and Jim Henson. Her most recent book, the anthropomorphic fantasy Huntress, received the 2014 Cóyotl Award for Best Novella.

Renee lives in West Virginia with her husband, their cat, and more books than she will ever have time to read. She can be found online at reneecarterhall.com and on Twitter as @RCarterHall.
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Renee Carter Hall Finding that something you've written has given someone comfort, or strength, or even just a moment's amusement or distraction -- all from characters …moreFinding that something you've written has given someone comfort, or strength, or even just a moment's amusement or distraction -- all from characters and stories that felt real to you and now have become real to, and loved by, someone else.(less)
Renee Carter Hall As far as craft goes -- keep writing, keep reading, keep learning. Do those three things, and it's pretty much impossible not to improve over time.

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As far as craft goes -- keep writing, keep reading, keep learning. Do those three things, and it's pretty much impossible not to improve over time.

In terms of process, the most important thing is to find what works for you. You'll hear all kinds of advice about what "real writers" supposedly have to do -- write every single day, or write a certain number of words per day, or always have an outline, or some other particular strategy -- but there's no single formula that fits everyone. Experiment and find what works for you, even if it doesn't match your favorite author's process.(less)
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A few updates on what I’ve been doing so far this year…

My blog Three From Waynesboro, telling the story of what happened when me and 2 friends sold a story to Steven Spielberg when we were 13, is finally complete (unless I decide to resurrect it to comment on the TTA reboot; we’ll see). This is a project that had been in the works since February 2016, so it really feels good to finally have it do

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“Second. If any male ever tries to force you--or if he does--they’re no more to you than the zebra or the kudu or the pigs. Kill him. If you can’t kill him, tell us who he is, and we will. No man touches a karanja except by her will, or he dies. That goes for rainspeakers and aumahs and Yaa himself.” Thembe’s eyes were bright flames.”
Renee Carter Hall, Huntress

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
C.S. Lewis

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
C.S. Lewis

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