Lynn Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#books #computer #computers #embroidery #history