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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

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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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Anyway
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Todd

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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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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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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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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
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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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