Life Sometimes Gets In The Way Of

You Learn To Write By Writing, And By Reading And Thinking About How Writers Have Created Their Characters And Invented Their Stories. If You Are Not A Reader, Don't Even Think About Being A Writer.

And That's How I Start Myself. I Usually Go Back A Couple Of Pages, Maybe To The Beginning Of The Chapter, And I Start Reading. And As I'm Reading, I'm Tweaking - Putting In A Different Word, Changing The Syntax, Putting That Clause Over There, You Know That Sort Of Thing.

Of The Two, I Would Think Of My Work As Closer To Science Fiction Than Fantasy.

I Had Tears Coming Out Of My Eyes. And It Was The Characters That Got Me There.

The Other Mammoths Were As Protective Of The Dying As They Were Of Newborns, And They Gathered Around Tying To Make The Fallen One Get Up. When All Was Over, They Buried The Dead Ancestor Under Piles Of Dirt, Grass, Leaves, Or Snow. Mammoths Were Even Known To Bury Other Dead Animals, Including Humans.