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Wayne Smallman

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in The United Kingdom
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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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September 2011

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When you're young, you think you know everything and life is indistinguishable from a game. It's only when you get older — when you begin to doubt the authenticity of the event and question the rules — that experience begins to count for something. And to quote the inimitable Forbes Bingley, a recurring character of several novels: "Life makes you stronger, at a price."

In a sense, life has been preparation — practice, perhaps — for this wild stab at being an author. After all, how hard can it be, putting one word after another? Of course, like anything else in life, you only get out what you put in. At times, writing is both cathartic and semi autobiographical, where I catch myself looking backwards whimsically, lustily, with regret, a wry ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Wayne Smallman I think writer's block means different things to different people.

Because I write hard science fiction, honing ideas that hinge on known or speculativ…moreI think writer's block means different things to different people.

Because I write hard science fiction, honing ideas that hinge on known or speculative scientific and technological concepts is, sometimes, a challenge.

Minimising the hand-waving is the part that — at times — drags on, breaks my stride, and soaks up the momentum.

Here, I switch to something else.

At the moment, I have 16 novels on the go at any one time.

I also run a business, so there's much to focus on there.

So I have options.

Or, if the weather is good, I go for a walk, or perhaps if the schedule is correct, a 10k run.(less)
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Wayne Smallman I prize learning, and as a writer I have the unique chance to be self-indulgent and learn those things that I find most fascinating — which is almost …moreI prize learning, and as a writer I have the unique chance to be self-indulgent and learn those things that I find most fascinating — which is almost anything!(less)
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Average rating: 4.24 · 17 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works
Lucidity
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
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Hunter S. Thompson
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin
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Ogden Nash
“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
tags: dog, door
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