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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
Journalist
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.
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Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.
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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
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If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
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Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.
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The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.
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My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
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Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.
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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
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I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
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My singing ability is zilch.
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I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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