A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love
I construct timelines for each story and a master timeline for sequencing the stories in the volume.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love
I love writing Thieves' World, but I feel a responsibility, too, to the other authors. I've lost many nights' sleep worrying if I've made the sandbox too large, too small.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love