David F.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Does it get harder to write about Miles as he gets older, less eager to travel, more valuable to Gregor at home, and with various medical problems? Stroke history on paternal side plus seizure disorder.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, there's all that, plus the genre expectation for each story being more "important" than all the prior, as well as "different", which is another moving target. Easy enough when one is writing the second story of two; harder when it's the umpteenth of whatever it is by now.
(Also, much of that description of the annoyances of aging now applies to me, except, thankfully, seizure disorder.)
Should I generate a story idea fresh enough to get me excited, there is no reason I can't write, but that internal threshold has become rather high. Plus I'm drowning in new media distractions, previously unavailable or nonexistent (streaming!) which is something like going out for a dinner someone else has cooked. Reduces motivation; I don't have to run an internal television just to be fed/entertained.
So the short answer is probably "Yes."
Ta, L.
Well, there's all that, plus the genre expectation for each story being more "important" than all the prior, as well as "different", which is another moving target. Easy enough when one is writing the second story of two; harder when it's the umpteenth of whatever it is by now.
(Also, much of that description of the annoyances of aging now applies to me, except, thankfully, seizure disorder.)
Should I generate a story idea fresh enough to get me excited, there is no reason I can't write, but that internal threshold has become rather high. Plus I'm drowning in new media distractions, previously unavailable or nonexistent (streaming!) which is something like going out for a dinner someone else has cooked. Reduces motivation; I don't have to run an internal television just to be fed/entertained.
So the short answer is probably "Yes."
Ta, L.
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How do you approach writing book reviews? I often have a lot to say about a book while I'm reading and reacting to it, but trouble finding the heart of how I felt about it in a short review. I enjoy reading your Goodreads reviews and those of Patrick Rothfuss a lot, and respect your taste. Any advice for those of us who read a lot, but could stand to recommend more?
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