Laura

Laura asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

When you are busy writing do you notice a decline in your interest in reading? Or maybe in reading works similar to what you are writing? Perhaps this pertains more to fiction than non-fiction, but I've experienced seasons when a world is actively gestating inside my head and similar stories lose their appeal. Curious to know if others experience something similar. Thank you!

Lois McMaster Bujold My brain seems to be a narrow bridge with only one lane. Input and output have to wait their turns on each other. When I'm writing, I have to reduce reading, or my mind is too full of other people's stuff to hear myself think.

The internet is especially bad for this, because there is no such thing as coming to the end and being able to close it, finished, and move on.

T, L.

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I Whole-heartily Love All Your Books. I've read (or listened) to all of them at least twice. Re-listening to the Sharing Knife series for the 4th time currently. Recently I re-read The Spirit Ring novel. Like all your works, it was wonderfully done. There were so many possibilities and hints for more. Please forgive me if you've already answered this, but why was there no Follow-up to The Spirit Ring?

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