Matthew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you read novels while you're writing one? Or do you need to focus on the narrative you're creating without being distracted or influenced by another?
Lois McMaster Bujold
In and out of my brain seems to be a one-way bridge. Heavy input blocks output, and eats time for rumination, or even for long-term memory formation. Since modern media now provides an effectively infinite river of input, and I have neither infinite time nor infinite brain-space, I do have to go on a sort of self-imposed input diet while actively creating. Or put another way, I start to create when what's going on inside my head manages to be more interesting to me than all that's coming in from outside.
Naturally, this is growing harder, as modern media gets better and better at competing for people's attention, and there is easier access to way more of it.
Ta, L.
Naturally, this is growing harder, as modern media gets better and better at competing for people's attention, and there is easier access to way more of it.
Ta, L.
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Aprilleigh
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just realized my son (who is almost 10) shares an unusual name with one of your characters, Ser Galen. As many times as I've reread those books I'm shocked it took me this long to make that connection. Other than the historical significance, I thought the only other place I had seen it before was the character Richard Galen from STTNG (there's a bit of a family in-joke about the latter). Where did you get the name?
Miriam Scharnke
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you have any head-canon about traditional Barrayaran wedding ceremonies not mentioned in any of your books that you would be willing to share? My partner and I both really love the Vorkosigan series, and are thinking about including a reference to it in our own wedding ceremony!
Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I gather that there is a nod to Lady Peter Wimsey (Harriet Vane) in Ekaterine Vorvayne. But is there a reverse homage (as far as you know) when Harriet makes it a major project to herself create a garden in the footprint or outline of the burnt-out wing of Duke's Denver (in Jill Paton Walsh's "The Attenbury Emeralds")?
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