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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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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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Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
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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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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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I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
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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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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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James Blish told me I had the worst case of said bookism (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
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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 also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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