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[personal] Open thread and call for questions
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Posted: 5:14 am Wed June 27 2012 |
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In the intro to “Witness to the Fall” in your collection, The Sky that Wraps, you refer to a lesson you learned about not hot-dogging the writing and paying closer attention to what you were doing and how that story took longer to write than the others to that point. “Witness” has a distinct difference in style, it feels more controlled and deliberate, more lyrical with stronger muscles flowing under the skin. It was much closer to the story you read at Confusion (which I apologize, I don’t remember the title). Can you elaborate more fully on that lesson you learned and how it continues to affect how you write (here I guess I’m asking about the process)?
You haven’t mentioned your trip to Antarctica lately…Where are you in the planning stages? Are you still considering doing a kickstarter for it? Or are you waiting until your next scan to decide on these things?
Do you write faster writing fiction or non-fiction?