Fiction Writing Is A Twenty-four-hou R-a-day Occupation.

You Can Either Give In To What Youre Feeling, Just Say ‘okay, Enough Is Enough’ And Be Done With It, Or You Can Fight It.

I Am Incomplete Without My Work. I Am So Closely Bound To It, So Much Identified By It, That Without It I Think I Would Crumble Into Dust And Drift Away.

My Breakthrough As A Reader Was When I Discovered The European Adventure Story Writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, To Name A Few.

Writing Fantasy Lets Me Imagine A Great Deal More Than, Say, Writing About Alligators, And Lets Me Write About Places More Distant Than Florida, But I Can Tell You Things About Florida And Alligators, Let You Make The Connection All On Your Own.

Lester Del Rey Told Me Repeatedly That The First And Most Important Part Of Writing Fiction Is Just To Think About The Story. Don't Write Anything Down. Don't Try To Pull Anything Together Right Away. Just Dream For A While And See What Happens. There Isn't Any Timetable Involved, No Measuring Stick For How Long It Ought To Take. For Each Book, It Is Different. But That Period Of Thinking, Of Reflection, Is Crucial To How Successful Your Story Will Turn Out To Be.