Taler Stanton
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I was wondering where you draw your inspirations from? Do you often see people, historical time periods, moments and then create stories based upon that? How much of your writing are pieces of your childhood combined with life experiences?
Lois McMaster Bujold
This question is a bit too broad to answer, but briefly, All Of The Above covers it. Like found art, the stories tend to be pieced together like a montage from all sorts of magpie bits and bobs, fleshed out as I go. Including, of course, experiences from all periods of my life. (Pieces of my childhood are (among) my life experiences, natch. They aren't really something separate.)
Which bits in my bag get picked out for inclusion at any given time is driven by the underlying needs of the story. So the process is far from random.
(My nonfiction collection Sidelines: Talks and Essays includes more on some of the stories' specific origins, scattered about.)
Which bits in my bag get picked out for inclusion at any given time is driven by the underlying needs of the story. So the process is far from random.
(My nonfiction collection Sidelines: Talks and Essays includes more on some of the stories' specific origins, scattered about.)
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Joseph Clark
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In "Komarr", Ekaterin notes that Nikki's Vorzohn's Dystrophy would make him ineligible to be a jump pilot. Miles also notes this. But when Nikki is given the retrogenes, are we to assume they were successfully assimilated, and that Nikki is going to become a jump pilot eventually?
Gard Evyr
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Lois what is it about the midwest region like Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. that produces so many of the top writers (serious, non quipy question)? From you, to Rothfuss(Wisconsin), Scott Lynch(Minnesota), Brent Weeks(Montana), NK Jemison(Iowa), Brandon Sanderson (Nebraska), etc. But in particular Minnesota/Wisconsin often seems like some sort of hotspot. Is there some particularly strong writing culture there or what?
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