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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Emma Bilz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! New reader here, really enjoy your books. Since you have written books of both the fantasy and sci-fi genres I was wondering if it was possible to combine the two? Would you have to minimise the magical element to it or just make magic follow a certain set of rules such as other forces do?
Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Miles is famously allergic to fastpenta. In 'Shards of Honor' Cordelia seems to have a similar if milder reaction to the airborne sedative in the therapists office. Is that a genetic trait that got passed on to Miles? Any any relation to the haute ladies genetically engineered resistance to truth drugs?
Dennis
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is the Count Selig Vorkosigan from the Time of Isolation who is mentioned a few times in the books also the father of Count Piotr? If not, do you have any ideas about Piotr's father? We know he was married to a Vorrutyer and that Piotr had inherited by age 22. Does that mean the Count Pierre's father died during the First Cetagandan War or before the end of the Time of Isolation?
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