Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Are you worried that spending a lot of time communicating with your fans, especially in answering questions about older works, keeps you from getting back to writing and getting into the mood for something unrelated to past books? I have realized that if i spend too much time noodling on the Internet and Facebook and Goodreads, I don't get much else done for the day.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It certainly is a distraction, but if I didn't have it, I would just go looking for something else. I suppose I needed something to replace all that computer solitaire... (I finally had my son take the game off my machine.)
If the writing is going well, it's not too hard to ignore the distractions. If not, not.
There are physical limits in play as well -- only so much eye and butt fatigue tolerated per day. One must be aware of one's endurance and use one's limits wisely. Or so I theorize...
The constant tug back to older works is a subtler problem. I have that on the pro side as well, in the editing and proofreading of new editions of older material. I just spent the past two weeks going over the files of books I'd written in 1983 and 1984, bringing them up to my 2015 punctuation standards and so on. This is not time I spent thinking up anything new, so I suppose it adds up. (It was a pretty good way to spend two weeks of a Minnesota February, however.)
Ta, L.
It certainly is a distraction, but if I didn't have it, I would just go looking for something else. I suppose I needed something to replace all that computer solitaire... (I finally had my son take the game off my machine.)
If the writing is going well, it's not too hard to ignore the distractions. If not, not.
There are physical limits in play as well -- only so much eye and butt fatigue tolerated per day. One must be aware of one's endurance and use one's limits wisely. Or so I theorize...
The constant tug back to older works is a subtler problem. I have that on the pro side as well, in the editing and proofreading of new editions of older material. I just spent the past two weeks going over the files of books I'd written in 1983 and 1984, bringing them up to my 2015 punctuation standards and so on. This is not time I spent thinking up anything new, so I suppose it adds up. (It was a pretty good way to spend two weeks of a Minnesota February, however.)
Ta, L.
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Ibnobody
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you remember that in your August 3rd reddit AMA, I asked you a question regarding your most cherished book you ever lost? I mentioned that mine was the ARC of The Curse of Chalion that I misplaced. My wife read the AMA and secretly bought me a signed copy of the ARC as a replacement. I just wanted to let you know that there was a happy ending! (I'm not letting this copy out of my sight!)
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
"As far as medical aid goes, I'd think Miles would be a lot more comfortable going to Beta Colony. We don't actually know that he hasn't.." Interesting. I know someone with ALS, luckily the slow kind. I've wondered how profoundly it would affect him emotionally if it were not just arrested but reversed after 20 years of fighting & dealing with a slowly progressing debilitation. Conflicted, redefining himself at 65?
Meryl Federman
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Did Galen have Barrayaran-style prejudices against uterine replicators and homosexuality? Mark implies that he was exposed to slurs against both from Galen himself, and it seemed like Mark didn't just know about Barrayar's prejudices in an academic way, but really felt them. Was Galen putting on an act, or was he truly biased? If he was biased, was such bias common on Komarr?
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