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Piers Anthony
English
Writer
Born:
Aug 6
,
1934
Any
Fiction
First
Work
Writing
You
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
Sometimes
Those
Guilty
Weak
Case
He
Check
Most
Make
Himself
Sure
Makes
Person
Accusation
Who
Whose
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Piers Anthony
You
Sense
Fathom
All Things
Make
How
Just
Things
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony
Dangerous
Took
Comprehend
Adversary
Most
Opponents
His
Pains
Who
Position
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
Piers Anthony
Impossible
Possible
Literature
Theoretically
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
Piers Anthony
First
Later
Potential
Lighter
Also
Read
Tape
Listened
Fiction
Fantastic
Douglas
Fun
Series
Shows
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Piers Anthony
Month
Emails
About
Read
Answer
Letters
Present
But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
Piers Anthony
Too Much
Too
Else
Pleasure
Read
Listen
Much
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
Piers Anthony
You
Writing
Wife
First
Living
Earn
Support
Because
Spouse
Years
Us
Worked
Working
Ever
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
Piers Anthony
Work
Today
Remember
Young
Too
Admired
Classics
Glad
Like
Him
Readers
Always
His
May
Lovers
Farmer
Chance
Phil
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
Piers Anthony
Book
Internet
Free
Possible
Cost
Ongoing
Writer
Self
Maintain
Like
Nominal
Sale
Survey
Get
Any
Now
Published
Publishing
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
Piers Anthony
Writing
Neither
Would
Be Different
Inside
See
Outline
More
Scene
Outside
Never
Feel
Bound
Because
Disciplined
Am
Than
Did
Just
Different
Happens
Far
View
Full
Start
I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
Piers Anthony
Love
Time
Wish
Took
About
My Time
Readers
Goes
Them
Working
Less
Need
Third
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
You
Down
Every
Case
Take
Look
Editor
However
Text
Maybe
Just
Should
Turns
Your
Second
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers Anthony
You
Writing
First
Practice
Before
Market
More
Only
Gives
Because
Does
Making
Years
Sale
Score
Improve
Did
Eight
Skill
Keep
Chances
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
Piers Anthony
Background
Though
Characters
Thousands
Cast
Clone
Familiar
Any
Aspects
Many
Novel
Grown
Things
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers Anthony
Work
Writing
Channels
Considerable
Summary
Out
Details
Be Different
General
Within
Always
Anticipation
Normally
Different
Mean
Work Out
Then
Start
Flow
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
Wait
Summon
Writer
Block
Reason
Suffer
Muse
Need
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Piers Anthony
Good
Will
Healthy
Rose
Think
Assuming
Way
Indeed
TV
Folk
Paranoia
Distrust
Something
Writers
Wrong
Know
Princess
Call
Because
How
Go
Done
Different
Movie
Should
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Piers Anthony
Writing
Seriously
Humorous
Take
Simply
Became
Continue
Fantasy
Found
Started
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