I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
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The compassion is instigated by the situation, and Godwin, a bit ham-handedly, belabors the situation so that there can be no doubt in the reader's mind, makes Marilyn sweet, young, and innocent (rather than a cold-blooded murderer or serial killer) so that reader will want to save her - and then the realization of the cold equations will be more effective.James Gunn
Scientists do their best work when they are in their early years. Writers' skills don't necessarily decay if they can keep their interests and hopes alive (like Jack Williamson), their experience allows them greater depths to explore.
James Gunn
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
James Gunn
One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
James Gunn
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that nothing is what it seems). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.
James Gunn
But, on the most part, he belonged to the optimists he felt that there would be time enough to suffer when catastrophe really struck
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