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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
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Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
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