Laura
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
When you are busy writing do you notice a decline in your interest in reading? Or maybe in reading works similar to what you are writing? Perhaps this pertains more to fiction than non-fiction, but I've experienced seasons when a world is actively gestating inside my head and similar stories lose their appeal. Curious to know if others experience something similar. Thank you!
Lois McMaster Bujold
My brain seems to be a narrow bridge with only one lane. Input and output have to wait their turns on each other. When I'm writing, I have to reduce reading, or my mind is too full of other people's stuff to hear myself think.
The internet is especially bad for this, because there is no such thing as coming to the end and being able to close it, finished, and move on.
T, L.
The internet is especially bad for this, because there is no such thing as coming to the end and being able to close it, finished, and move on.
T, L.
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Sarah Cranston
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not a ?, just a fangirl gush :-) I loved the prophecy ending Curse of Chalion: “When the souls rise up in glory, yours ...shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.” It reminded me of other words I've long treasured, Malachi 3:13-4:2, https://bit.ly/2PdvP9t - in God, my pain is transmuted to treasure, never wasted. Thanks for the moment of beauty!
Margarete
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Sorry if you've answered this before but every time I read Barrayar (more than 5 times at this point) it pops into my head: are all the "I didn't vote for him" comments about Steady Freddie just a running joke for you, an inside joke among Betans or a side hint that their society isn't as democratically perfect as it seems? Or something else entirely? Thanks so much for the amazing books!
Tchipakkan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Are you done with the Vorkosigan universe? It's been a big part of our whole family's lives. We always anticipated a book in which Ivan's careful avoidance of obvious competence came out (probably because of a woman he was in love with) and I have to say that Vorpatril's Alliance did not disappoint. But I'd love to see one with Mark as the protagonist, and also Miles as he gets older.
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