Everybody Walks Past A Thousand Story Ideas

Oh, I'll Live Ender's Life, Too. It's So Much More Interesting Than My Own." ~val

The Future Is A Hundred Thousand Threads, But The Past Is A Fabric That Can Never Be Rewoven.

That's The Problem With Winning Right From The Start, Thought Ender. You Lose Friends.

The Great Forces Of History Were Real, After A Fashion. But When You Examined Them Closely, Those Great Forces Always Came Down To The Dreams And Hungers And Judgments Of Individuals.

You Can't Write A Novel All At Once, Any More Than You Can Swallow A Whale In One Gulp. You Do Have To Break It Up Into Smaller Chunks. But Those Smaller Chunks Aren't Good Old Familiar Short Stories. Novels Aren't Built Out Of Short Stories. They Are Built Out Of Scenes.