A.A. Attanasio
Joshua, I'm grateful that you find merit in my writing style. Some readers get annoyed with metaphor in fiction. For me, poetry adds to the narrative an ineffable dimension, a mood or atmosphere very like the inexpressible feelings we experience in our daily lives. Tips for writing lyrically? Enter into the scene you're composing with a synesthetic attitude. Ask how a fragrance might sound - or a texture look. No need to worry about copying style, because your associations will be personal. Dramatic action and character development have only a few literary variations, but verbal imagination is unique! I applaud you for seeking your lyric voice.
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Brian Kehler
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A.A. Attanasio:
I truly enjoyed your work as a teenager back in the 1990's. They were hugely influential to how I see the world: ecstatically and with intentional wonder. I remember feeling about ten years ago that you seemed to have fallen off the SF/F proverbial "map." Is there another "great work" in the offing, like the Radix books? Or have you moved on to other ambitions? Either way, a thousand thanks for your stellar work!
Maria Iglesias
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A.A. Attanasio:
?I bought your book, Last Legends of Earth, from a second-hand shop in Australia during one of the most difficult periods of my life. The escape the book provided and the direction it took my mind was one of many steps that could have taken a dramatically different turn. Thank you. Now that is all behind me, and I still remember how you brought my shattered mind and broken spirit back into wonder.
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