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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!
Anne McCaffrey
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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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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 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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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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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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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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 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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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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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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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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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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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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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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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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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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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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