Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern fantasy series. Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 April 1926
CountryUnited States of America
war writing needs
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
believe writing want
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
dog horse writing
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
writing good-day bad-day
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
children school writing
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
writing verbs limits
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
writing tools emotion
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
writing stories form
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
writing vocabulary style
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
writing together stories
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
writing needs certain
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.
struggle knowing succeed
Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
halloween scary mind
Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.