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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

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
Light
Must
Blackest
Dispel
Dreamer
Dawn
Fear
Night
Ends

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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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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 didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
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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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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
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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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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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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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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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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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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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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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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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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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