Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Are you worried that spending a lot of time communicating with your fans, especially in answering questions about older works, keeps you from getting back to writing and getting into the mood for something unrelated to past books? I have realized that if i spend too much time noodling on the Internet and Facebook and Goodreads, I don't get much else done for the day.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It certainly is a distraction, but if I didn't have it, I would just go looking for something else. I suppose I needed something to replace all that computer solitaire... (I finally had my son take the game off my machine.)
If the writing is going well, it's not too hard to ignore the distractions. If not, not.
There are physical limits in play as well -- only so much eye and butt fatigue tolerated per day. One must be aware of one's endurance and use one's limits wisely. Or so I theorize...
The constant tug back to older works is a subtler problem. I have that on the pro side as well, in the editing and proofreading of new editions of older material. I just spent the past two weeks going over the files of books I'd written in 1983 and 1984, bringing them up to my 2015 punctuation standards and so on. This is not time I spent thinking up anything new, so I suppose it adds up. (It was a pretty good way to spend two weeks of a Minnesota February, however.)
Ta, L.
It certainly is a distraction, but if I didn't have it, I would just go looking for something else. I suppose I needed something to replace all that computer solitaire... (I finally had my son take the game off my machine.)
If the writing is going well, it's not too hard to ignore the distractions. If not, not.
There are physical limits in play as well -- only so much eye and butt fatigue tolerated per day. One must be aware of one's endurance and use one's limits wisely. Or so I theorize...
The constant tug back to older works is a subtler problem. I have that on the pro side as well, in the editing and proofreading of new editions of older material. I just spent the past two weeks going over the files of books I'd written in 1983 and 1984, bringing them up to my 2015 punctuation standards and so on. This is not time I spent thinking up anything new, so I suppose it adds up. (It was a pretty good way to spend two weeks of a Minnesota February, however.)
Ta, L.
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Patri Friedman
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Has someone else taken over the SoftWear authorized merchandise (http://www.softwear-tnt.com/loisbujold.html) since they seem to no longer be active? "Bharaputra Laboratories", "Koudelka All-Blonde Commando Team", "Barrayaran Imperial Military Academy", etc, I would love to purchase some of these items.
Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Any regrets/second thoughts a la Rowling saying Harry should have ended up with Hermione? For example I've never been able to reconcile Aral having Carl executed. Any terran place I can use as a mental picture of Cordelia's bay? Thought about it driving some of the California coast and wondered.
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