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Why was it diicult to expand into a novel?

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Actually, most of my novels feel undoable as I struggle along with the writing process. In this case, I succumbed to the temptation to jump ship. I think this was because there were lots of other things to do, and I believed that a change of pace might do all my projects some good. I igured I could come back to Twice Stolen a working title of the Blabber-based novel at some later time.

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Particularly when, as you say, one was set considerably later than the other. I had always had fun with the Tines and igured that writing more about them would be both doable and interesting. I think I got these details right, often with intriguing solutions, but for a while the plot was a mineield for me.

Without wanting to turn this into a Paris Review type interview, I still found it fascinating to ask what made him a slow writer. Did he take a long time to develop an idea, for instance? My idea development speed may be about average, but inally starting to write or restarting the process can be slow. Once under way, I reliably do words of rough draft per day. I notice from my ile names that the draft count can get up to 9, but I think those are really just minor revisions, or redrafts addressing some particular issue.

In that case, when do you consider a book is done? I normally have a list of concrete problems. Given all that, therefore, are we in for a long wait before Twice Stolen, or indeed the novel that may come between he Children of the Sky and it? Alas, I think there will be a long wait. Returning to the point that Children was diicult to write, I had to ask: in what way?

Is that because you relish the change of Was it more diicult than his novels usually pace? Tor Books, April For a long time, I tried to limit the size of the novel by having only one viewpoint character. Many ine Or do you ind the demands of writing far future and near future novels are written from a single viewpoint.


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In the s, I myare not that diferent? Giving up on the single dated and perhaps laughably wrong , by the time it goes into print viewpoint strategy was very frustrating, but inally I had to do it. It But a novel as far future as he Children of the Sky still resonates can be especially irritating to write a great action scene or a hundred with the world in which it was written.

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I asked, for example, pages of adventure—and then realize that one of your characters about an economic theme that I detected running through the would never play the role shown because that character had necessarbook. It seems to include representatives of feudal, planned and ily been exposed to some secret about another character. In the end dictatorial societies, with a capitalist model winning out in the I eventually took a deep breath and put the book down.

I sat for a few minutes and tried to igure out what was exasperating me. I was briely tempted to put the book aside and come back to it later, but there was something lingering at the edge of my thoughts that I could not pin down, and I needed to understand it. So I went back into the book, stuck with it, and inished it over the course of several days. When I inished the book, I did not know how to feel about it. When I wrote my review of the book, I was still dealing with that:. After the irst several pages you wonder if you have entered into a metaictional puzzle, some sort of stereotypically-postmodern labyrinth that wants you to feel lost, worried, and perplexed.

I knew that it was secondary-world fantasy but little else, and did not know what to expect from it. I began reading the brief chapters, headings and margins crawling with images of ants, and after several chapters I felt some McDermott has, in less than a decade, published four novels, several dozen short stories, and poetry, with Last Dragon being his best-known work. He is an energetic writer who has garnered praise for the powerful mix of insight and complexity of his iction.

Furthermore, he gives his characters a memorable voice, yet they remain detached to a small degree from the proceedings.

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Bull Spec 7 Dragon is so disjointed as to appear to have been dismembered. In fact, I might not have inished it. Addiction to behavior is as powa brief instance of shock as you begin to read a piece of McDererful as any narcotic or spell and overwhelms people just as wholly. She is addicted to the telland make his stories inhabit your ing of her story, and corrupted mind. As a reviewer for the blog by it. But Zhan is too their telling, and the reader must entwined with her past, too destruggle along with the characters.

McDermott diferent than our own. Magic imprisons ment or observation is. Why do the narrators? I irst got hooked on old time radio via mail order cassette tapes when I was a kid. In the early 80s the Tampa Tribune actually still ran radio listings with the radio programming for the week.


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    7. Many radio stations ran s and 50s radio dramas to cater to retirees. Along with those classic rebroadcasts, I listened to the irst run CBS Radio Mystery Theater which often ran science iction stories. These few remaining shows barely hinted at the wealth of radio programming before television. In the s radio dabbled in science iction. Anthology programs like Suspense Escape , and The Lux Radio Theater which from to did hour long versions of movies with the real casts occasionally did science iction.

    Dimension X was the irst exclusively science iction program. X Minus One aired episodes until It was a perfect storm for launching a science iction anthology. Radio was running scared and many radio programs such as Dragnet and Gunsmoke simply gave up and transitioned to television. The pulp science iction magazines were in full swing.

    X Minus One was a last ditch effort to regain listen The program adapted stories from Ray Bradbury, Philip K. The episodes dealt with serious subjects in a mature manner. Sadly a great many classic radio shows have been lost. The networks often performed radio shows live and did not record the episodes. Listeners at home sometimes recorded shows on primitive disc recorders at 78 rpm collecting just ive minutes at a time.

    Home taping could be prohibitively expensive until the late s. Then came the development of wire recorders that could capture complete programs. Finally, just in time for X Minus One, the technology improved and listeners could afford to record over an hour of program-. I also suspect that science iction fans were maybe a bit more technology savvy than other radio listeners and had the equipment to record the shows. X Minus One is readily available on the web. For a list of all the programs with brief plot summaries, check out [www.

    My favorite site for streaming any old time radio program is [www. You can listen to them online or download the programs for free. So, what should you listen to? Good question. I think most of the programs are good. Occasional misires were often written in house by staff writers. The best programs tend to be adaptations of short stories from the pulps. Maybe my favorite episode.