David F.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Does it get harder to write about Miles as he gets older, less eager to travel, more valuable to Gregor at home, and with various medical problems? Stroke history on paternal side plus seizure disorder.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, there's all that, plus the genre expectation for each story being more "important" than all the prior, as well as "different", which is another moving target. Easy enough when one is writing the second story of two; harder when it's the umpteenth of whatever it is by now.
(Also, much of that description of the annoyances of aging now applies to me, except, thankfully, seizure disorder.)
Should I generate a story idea fresh enough to get me excited, there is no reason I can't write, but that internal threshold has become rather high. Plus I'm drowning in new media distractions, previously unavailable or nonexistent (streaming!) which is something like going out for a dinner someone else has cooked. Reduces motivation; I don't have to run an internal television just to be fed/entertained.
So the short answer is probably "Yes."
Ta, L.
Well, there's all that, plus the genre expectation for each story being more "important" than all the prior, as well as "different", which is another moving target. Easy enough when one is writing the second story of two; harder when it's the umpteenth of whatever it is by now.
(Also, much of that description of the annoyances of aging now applies to me, except, thankfully, seizure disorder.)
Should I generate a story idea fresh enough to get me excited, there is no reason I can't write, but that internal threshold has become rather high. Plus I'm drowning in new media distractions, previously unavailable or nonexistent (streaming!) which is something like going out for a dinner someone else has cooked. Reduces motivation; I don't have to run an internal television just to be fed/entertained.
So the short answer is probably "Yes."
Ta, L.
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I've tried to picture what a nerve-disruptor would look like, and find a conflict between descriptions of it's parabolic bell-shaped muzzle and the ease with which wielders of the weapon are able to holster and aim them. I appreciate that it would loom larger-than-life for anyone looking down the business-end of one and that most descriptions are from that perspective. How big are they really?
Andrew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station is a Trekkie and has posed for pictures in the ISS in a Star Trek costume. Do you also have fans in high places? Other than us Goodreads followers, of course. (Trekkie astronaut picture: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/05/first_espresso_in_space/)
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