T. E. Dawson asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hello! I would really love to start writing, but I have this problem. Every time I start something, or try to come up with something, I can never continue. Where do you get the inspirations for you books?

Lois McMaster Bujold Middles are hard; many writers bog in them. I can offer you a quote from one of my characters: "Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time."

For writing advice, try http://www.pcwrede.com/blog/ or the compact version, the e-book Wrede on Writing.

Your last question is much too broad to answer here, but I cover some in my nonfiction collection Sidelines: Talks and Essays. Also in assorted interviews over the years, http://vorkosigan.wikia.com/wiki/Auth... Comments on specific books tend to cluster around their original pub dates and attendant PR pushes.

(If what you are really trying to ask is, "Where can I get the inspirations for my books?", the main answers are: life experience (including work and family relationships, friends, getting people to talk to you and tell you their personal anecdotes, in other words lots of listening) tons of reading including history and nonfiction, travel and other direct non-reading information flows such as museums, courses, live stage plays as well as the normal flood of TV and movies, and, again, life experience.

Ta, L.

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