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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
