“ I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Verne is very dated now, and to be frank he wasn't that great a writer. His characterisation is weak, his plotting pretty basic, and his style leaves a lot to be desired… having said all that, this criticism is to take him out of context: you really need to look at his achievements in light of when he was writing, and what was being written at the time, and then you come to appreciate what a phenomenon Verne was. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Verne is very dated now, and to be frank he wasn't that great a writer. His characterisation is weak, his plotting pretty basic, and his style leaves a lot to be desired… having said all that, this criticism is to take him out of context: you really need to look at his achievements in light of when he was writing, and what was being written at the time, and then you come to appreciate what a phenomenon Verne was. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Verne is very dated now, and to be frank he wasn't that great a writer. His characterisation is weak, his plotting pretty basic, and his style leaves a lot to be desired… having said all that, this criticism is to take him out of context: you really need to look at his achievements in light of when he was writing, and what was being written at the time, and then you come to appreciate what a phenomenon Verne was. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ It does appear that I've been doing nothing but scribbling, but some of the books were written a while back, and have only just gone into print. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ People hate the commercialization of the holidays. They are looking for a better quality of life, not more stuff. We've done the survey for the past four years, and the results are fairly consistent. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ In '82 I'd sold a short SF play for children to Holt, Rheinhart and Winston, but I didn't consider this as a 'start' or a breakthrough in any way. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 2.9K
“ It will hit clubs with a bigger bill at the beginning of next season. Most clubs order their shuttles around July and August. It will start to hit them then. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 3.5K
“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 706
“ The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 1.8K
“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 3K
“ Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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