Jeff A. Carver
James Gunn
Stan Schmidt
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
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| "The action, the conflict and plot should all grow out of who the characters are, the kinds of people they are. I always adovcate stealing bits of personality from people you know--your friends and families, your teachers (heh-heh), and people you meet in the world." Jeff A. Carver |
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| "One has to adopt the writing style that fits best with who you are the the story you want to tell. The most important discovery a writer has to make is who he/she is--how you are different from everybody else--because tht is the only thing worth writing about and the only thing readers realy want to read about." James Gunn |
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| "I read about 500 stories a month, so for most of them there's no time to do anything except stick on an appropriate form letter. But once in a while there's a story that's almost what I want, or a writer who's caught my eye and I'm trying to help over the hump and I'l sometimes spend quite a bit of time writing a letter about what I do and don't like in a story. I dont usually say "Do this and I'll buy it," but rather "This is what bothers me; what can you do about it?....In a workshop, you get suggestions from several different people, who may have very different ideas of what your story should be. In professional publishing, you just have to satsify one editor--and editors too are just quirky individuals with their own peculiar tastes, which can be quite different!" Stan Schmidt |
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| "With maturity people have emotional reactions to situations, stimuli, facts, and other people's attitudes that are more muted than the same person would have at an earlier age. With maturity, people become more stable emotionally--it takes more and greater stimulus to set off an emotional reaction." Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
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| "With maturity people have emotional reactions to situations, stimuli, facts, and other people's attitudes that are more muted than the same person would have at an earlier age. With maturity, people become more stable emotionally--it takes more and greater stimulus to set off an emotional reaction." Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
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