Words matter. These are the best Lynn Abbey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’m always trolling for trivia.
I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.
Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
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.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
It’s possible to become so comfortable with one’s style and structure that one ceases to grow.
I’m a writer first and an editor second… or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don’t claim to have all of them at my command.
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
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.
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.
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.