Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
There is more information in the average sentence you write, or the average paragraph, than most other writers I can think of. Is this consciously done? To explain what I mean, when I first saw a Michelangelo sculpture up close, I was amazed at how much information was contained in all the subtle carving choices he made. Far more observations, say, than in the Mona Lisa.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Thank you for your attentive reading! What people get out of my prose does depend to a degree on what they bring to it.
No, it's not consciously done, exactly. I do feel any paragraph should spill out, at the end, someplace further on than where it began, and therefore most sentences, from which paragraphs are made, must do so, or link up to do so, as well. Making each paragraph a unit of change in the story, if you will: in motion. And I do spend a lot of time in the editing passes improving word choice, sometimes for purely mechanical reasons like fixing word echoes, sometimes to sharpen characterization or world-building. But I don't think of that as anything other than just writing.
Ta, L.
Thank you for your attentive reading! What people get out of my prose does depend to a degree on what they bring to it.
No, it's not consciously done, exactly. I do feel any paragraph should spill out, at the end, someplace further on than where it began, and therefore most sentences, from which paragraphs are made, must do so, or link up to do so, as well. Making each paragraph a unit of change in the story, if you will: in motion. And I do spend a lot of time in the editing passes improving word choice, sometimes for purely mechanical reasons like fixing word echoes, sometimes to sharpen characterization or world-building. But I don't think of that as anything other than just writing.
Ta, L.
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Richard
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I feel hesitant to criticize you, given how much the critical thinking, thoughtful commentary and philosophizing in your writings have informed, enriched and molded my character over the years. But would it be possible for you to add some book tags (i.e. manga, fantasy, contemporary, urban fantasy, YA, etc.) to your reviews here on Goodreads to make it easier for us to search for our next read using your reviews?
Gérard Bouyer
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois If I may. In the URL "https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16094.Lois_McMaster_Bujold?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_blog_post_digest" you advertise your Website as " http://www.dendarii.com/ " If we go in "Inspired - Merchandise, Filk, FanFic, FanArt, Book Covers." then in "SoftWear Toys & Tees" we come across: "http://www.softwear-tnt.com/"incomprehensible to me (and others) I bought more than a dec
Rick Ellrod
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Cordelia is apparently, as Emperor Ezar puts it near the end of Shards of Honor, "some sort of theist." I wonder how she got that way. We don't hear anything I can recall about religious traditions on Beta, which seems a modern-style secular society. Is there something in her background that gave rise to that frame of mind?
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