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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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