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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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Dragons
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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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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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