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While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.
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Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
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