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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
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But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
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Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
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