Roger
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
IMHO, Mirror Dance is a modern masterpiece of fiction. Are you ever concerned that some may choose not to read the book, because it is in the middle of such a long series?
Lois McMaster Bujold
A lot of people choose not to read my books, for a lot of reasons. Whether, when, or how any given reader may come to find or to process one's works is beyond the writer's control, and always will be. Still moreso after the writer dies. I mean, really, could any of the many older writers I read have even begun to imagine me, or where their words would fall, and how? The 11th C. Byzantine biographer, for example. Through his book, I could imagine him; the reverse is very much not true.
The one thing I can do that I can control is to try to make each book work as a stand-alone, as well as being part of a larger series structure. I do the best I can, where I am, with what I have, each year. After that, my words are necessarily cast loose on their own, sink or swim.
That said, I am very pleased when my books do work well for someone, as evidently in your case.
Ta, L.
A lot of people choose not to read my books, for a lot of reasons. Whether, when, or how any given reader may come to find or to process one's works is beyond the writer's control, and always will be. Still moreso after the writer dies. I mean, really, could any of the many older writers I read have even begun to imagine me, or where their words would fall, and how? The 11th C. Byzantine biographer, for example. Through his book, I could imagine him; the reverse is very much not true.
The one thing I can do that I can control is to try to make each book work as a stand-alone, as well as being part of a larger series structure. I do the best I can, where I am, with what I have, each year. After that, my words are necessarily cast loose on their own, sink or swim.
That said, I am very pleased when my books do work well for someone, as evidently in your case.
Ta, L.
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Matt
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi I'm writing a fantasy short story and I'm unsure how to write a main character having a flashback as someone else. Say if the characters name is John and he's having a flashback as another chara called Sally do I use John said or Sally said within the flashback? Cheers
Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
One thing that struck me in the WGW series was Dag denying that he had to return to the Lakewalkers and fight malices with them their way because he was necessary the cause, and said that it should never get to the point where any one person is indispensable. Now it seems there are quite a few people all over the political spectrum insisting that they are indispensable. Any thoughts on Being the MC vs group effort?
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