L.E. Modesitt Jr.
There are more than a few mysteries in my life, but I doubt that they'd make good plots.
There's the totally implausible way I met my wife, and the fact that science fiction made it possible, even though, at the time, she hated science fiction. Or the fact that, as a grade schooler, I hitched a ride on a mail truck, fell off, and got a concussion -- and that my mother, three miles away at a friend's house, stood up, said "Lee's been hurt," and drove to where I was stretched out unconscious on the side of the road. [By the way, the mail carrier never saw me].
Too many mysteries are too improbable for books.
On the other hand, my comparatively pedestrian, and none-too-mysterious career in politics has given me a great number of ideas and plots.
There's the totally implausible way I met my wife, and the fact that science fiction made it possible, even though, at the time, she hated science fiction. Or the fact that, as a grade schooler, I hitched a ride on a mail truck, fell off, and got a concussion -- and that my mother, three miles away at a friend's house, stood up, said "Lee's been hurt," and drove to where I was stretched out unconscious on the side of the road. [By the way, the mail carrier never saw me].
Too many mysteries are too improbable for books.
On the other hand, my comparatively pedestrian, and none-too-mysterious career in politics has given me a great number of ideas and plots.
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I have been reading your novels for many years...one thing I have observed is that you do a splendid job of building to the climax of the story and then within 5 pages the Book is over. Is this done consciously or is just a function of your writing style? Which ever is fine by me, I've just always been curious.
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