Zitat des Tages von Ann Leckie:
After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.
Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'
Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.
I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't.
Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.
Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.
The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.
I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.
Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.
'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.
'Fountain of youth' is actually kind of ambiguous - does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about?
Junk food's not going anywhere. The specifics of what's being snacked on, and what's considered 'junk' and what's 'healthy' will change, of course, depending on what's available.
The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good.
One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.
When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'
Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.
I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.
'Star Trek' still - I'm kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting.
Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.
I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.
