Gary
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As someone who can only dream of writing with the skill and proficiency that you have, can you share with me some of the things in your life that you believe has caused your writing to progress to its current state? Beyond repetition and revision what do you feel has most impacted your ability as an author?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Probably the most extensive place to see me piffle on about my writing is at the author interview section of the Vorkosigan Wiki, here. https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au... That should keep you busy for a while. The other two fairly useful places are in The Vorkosigan Companion and Sidelines: Talks and Essays.
And, as always, Pat Wrede's blog on writing is good value, http://www.pcwrede.com/blog/
Beyond that, I've pretty much lurched from project to project over the years not quite randomly, but rather like a person scrambling from one stepping stone to the next across a river, or scaling a climb one piton and some rope-work at a time, each step both creating and constraining the possibilities for the next, teaching me a bit more each time in the doing. I've learned to write by writing, on-the-job training. Possibly not efficient, but there ya go.
Ta, L.
And, as always, Pat Wrede's blog on writing is good value, http://www.pcwrede.com/blog/
Beyond that, I've pretty much lurched from project to project over the years not quite randomly, but rather like a person scrambling from one stepping stone to the next across a river, or scaling a climb one piton and some rope-work at a time, each step both creating and constraining the possibilities for the next, teaching me a bit more each time in the doing. I've learned to write by writing, on-the-job training. Possibly not efficient, but there ya go.
Ta, L.
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Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you have any cross-references between locations in the Sharing Knife series and locations in "our" world? Some are obvious, e.g. Graymouth = New Orleans, and of course the Grace and Gray rivers are the Ohio and Mississippi but I'd love to try to visualize where Lumpton / West Blue / Hickory Lake and so on would be found.
Liz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I'm really enjoying the Penric novellas; thank you for writing them and taking us back to the world of the five gods. Much of my reading these days is done via audiobook and I was wondering if you knew whether Mira's Last Dance was going to come out in audio format as well?
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