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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We've had a few inquiries from companies and individuals looking to develop an interactive, web-based game but, to date, none of them have progressed to the contract and license stage.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 176 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To feel free enough to write at all, I have to give my research a twist that allows me to say, Okay, this is NOT 12th century France.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 185 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Thieves' World is otherwise known as the project that ate my life in the '80s.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The books I've written for gaming companies are a like games of miniature golf where the object is to weave an interesting story through an obstacle course.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The actual process of selling my first novel was exciting at the time. I was no longer an apprentice but had become a journeyman.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Persistence pays and so does a willingness to follow directions.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 176 | Rank: 5.50 | Fav

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 216 | Rank: 0 | Fav

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 183 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 185 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 174 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Author: Lynn Abbey (1948) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 169 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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