Lynn Abbey
Lynn Abbey
Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbeyis an American computer programmer and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 September 1948
CountryUnited States of America
creating stories half
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.
editors feet tides
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
writing stories novel
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
typewriters trying use
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
writing discouraging blinded
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
genre-is editors ideas
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
book writing orphan
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
fantasy-novels stories imagine
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
book believe character
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
trivia
Im always trolling for trivia.
style structure grows
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
magic culture theory
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
intuition stories story-writers
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
successful editors skills
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.