When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.Sarah Zettel
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
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The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things.
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Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering