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No... A Novel Is A Long Business. I'm A Slow Writer, Even When I'm Doing Very Well I Write Slowly.

Most Of Us Don't Have To Worry About Being Shot Of We Poke Our Noses Outside. So We Are Comfortable, But The People I'm Writing About Are Definitely Not Comfortable, And Being Shot While They're Still Inside Is A Good Possibility.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

Fantasy Is Totally Wide Open; All You Really Have To Do Is Follow The Rules You've Set. But If You're Writing About Science, You Have To First Learn What You're Writing About.

...i Can Write My Own Stories And I Can Write Myself In.