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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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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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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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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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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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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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 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 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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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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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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