A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. - Lynn Abbey
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
- Lynn Abbey
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. - Lynn Abbey
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. - Lynn Abbey
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't clai… - Lynn Abbey
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't clai…
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. - Lynn Abbey
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. - Lynn Abbey
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
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 any… - Lynn Abbey
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 any…
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. - Lynn Abbey
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. - Lynn Abbey
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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