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If You Write, One Of The Questions You're Always Trying To Answer Is, Where Do You Get Your Ideas? And, If You Write, You Know How Pointless A Question This Is And How Difficult It Is To Answer.

I Do Have A Small Collection Of Traditional Sf Ideas Which I've Never Been Able To Sell. I'm Known As A Fantasy Writer And Neither My Agent Nor My Editors Want To Risk My Brand By Jumping Genre.

No One Uses A Ribbon Typewriter Any More, But Your Final Draft Is Not The Time To Try To Wring A Few More Sheets Out Of Your Inkjet Cartridge.

I'm Not Constrained By Being A Genre Writer. Any Story I Can Imagine, I Can Cast As A Fantasy Novel And Probably Get It Published.

Once You've Invested Hundreds Of Hours In Creating A Coherent Universe, Your Story's Grown To Around A Half-million Words And Can't Be Written As Anything Less Than A Trilogy.