The Thing All Writers Do Best Is

I Have A Bad Tendency To Get Rapidly Bored With My Own Material, So Rewriting Is Hard For Me. I Mean, I Already Know The Story And Would Rather Read Something New.

There's Certainly More New Sf Available Than When I Started Writing. That Means There's Also More Bad Sf Available. Whether There Is Also More Good Is A Matter For Future Historians Of The Field.

Keep Writing. Try To Do A Little Bit Every Day, Even If The Result Looks Like Crap. Getting From Page Four To Page Five Is More Important Than Spending Three Weeks Getting Page Four Perfect.

How Much Research I Have To Do Depends On The Nature Of The Story. For Fantasy, None At All.

Don't Try To Write To The Trend Of The Moment.