Lynn Abbey

I'm always trolling for trivia. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#i #trivia

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#dense #discouragement #i

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#answer #difficult #get #how #ideas

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#cultures #during #here #how #least

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#me #much #novel #short #short story

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#agent #been #brand #collection #editors

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bullets #by the time #dodging #end #english

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #get #holding #holding on #ideas