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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

Anne McCaffrey

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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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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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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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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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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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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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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 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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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
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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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To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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