Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
You say the e-writing process has gotten frighteningly fast. Good thing? Bad thing? Has it changed the way you write? Or any of the different stages of your writing? For myself, I can look back and see so many things that I now do totally differently because of the computer and the internet.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I should say, more precisely, that the self-e-publishing part has grown frighteningly fast. Writing still takes (me) as much time as ever.
I did finally make the shift, a few years back, to not printing out chapters as I went, instead working paperless just with e-files. (My paper consumption has dropped from cartons to next to nothing.) I find I do a lot more micro-editing this way, although I'm not sure that makes a discernible difference on the readers' end. But the editing-as-I-go, at the sentence level and scene by scene, has also grown in importance, as there is less time at the end to second-guess everything.
Ta, L.
I did finally make the shift, a few years back, to not printing out chapters as I went, instead working paperless just with e-files. (My paper consumption has dropped from cartons to next to nothing.) I find I do a lot more micro-editing this way, although I'm not sure that makes a discernible difference on the readers' end. But the editing-as-I-go, at the sentence level and scene by scene, has also grown in importance, as there is less time at the end to second-guess everything.
Ta, L.
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alison
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! A couple of questions ago you mentioned A Warrior's Apprentice as one of your evergreens, having never won awards (among some other criteria), which I'm so shocked by! I read it in high school and one of its lines is now memorialized as my senior year quote (too embarrassed to say which one). I've now graduated from college and still go back to it every year. Thanks for writing it all those years ago <3 [?]
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The question about the demon's different personalities disagreeing made me wonder. Does a well developed demon like Desdemona have any thoughts that are separate than the previous hosts? Besides the urge to chaos. Penric refers to Desdemona as all of them collectively, but there also seems to be some sort of unity of thought when he isn't calling on a specific personality.
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