teddy bear
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! I would really love to start writing, but I have this problem. Every time I start something, or try to come up with something, I can never continue. Where do you get the inspirations for you books?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Middles are hard; many writers bog in them. I can offer you a quote from one of my characters: "Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time."
For writing advice, try http://www.pcwrede.com/blog/ or the compact version, the e-book Wrede on Writing.
Your last question is much too broad to answer here, but I cover some in my nonfiction collection Sidelines: Talks and Essays. Also in assorted interviews over the years, http://vorkosigan.wikia.com/wiki/Auth... Comments on specific books tend to cluster around their original pub dates and attendant PR pushes.
(If what you are really trying to ask is, "Where can I get the inspirations for my books?", the main answers are: life experience (including work and family relationships, friends, getting people to talk to you and tell you their personal anecdotes, in other words lots of listening) tons of reading including history and nonfiction, travel and other direct non-reading information flows such as museums, courses, live stage plays as well as the normal flood of TV and movies, and, again, life experience.
Ta, L.
For writing advice, try http://www.pcwrede.com/blog/ or the compact version, the e-book Wrede on Writing.
Your last question is much too broad to answer here, but I cover some in my nonfiction collection Sidelines: Talks and Essays. Also in assorted interviews over the years, http://vorkosigan.wikia.com/wiki/Auth... Comments on specific books tend to cluster around their original pub dates and attendant PR pushes.
(If what you are really trying to ask is, "Where can I get the inspirations for my books?", the main answers are: life experience (including work and family relationships, friends, getting people to talk to you and tell you their personal anecdotes, in other words lots of listening) tons of reading including history and nonfiction, travel and other direct non-reading information flows such as museums, courses, live stage plays as well as the normal flood of TV and movies, and, again, life experience.
Ta, L.
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Chris Phoenix
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A PG-rated version of Sharing Knife would be readable by any kid who could handle (for example) Wings of Fire. I'm reading large excerpts to my kid already (and Knife Children unedited). She especially likes the malice-kill scenes. Would you consider producing such a thing? I'd buy it, and I suspect I'm far from the only parent who would.
Bob
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Love Your latest series of book, world of 5 gods. Going back and reading he orld of the Five Gods and keeping up with World of the Five Gods : Penric & Desdemona. You write so well. I wish I could write as well as you. Does your editor and friends help you as you write a book or when you finish? I have written a couple of books but that is far as it goes since I keep slipping into present tense from past tense.
Gard Evyr
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Lois, what is your personal favorite cover of all your books' covers, and why? Maybe you might demur on the question out of fear of inadvertently disparaging some artist or another, but it doesn't have to be the cover with the best art per se, but simply your own personal favorite for what might be a sentimental or personal reason?
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