Jon Williams
Jon Williams
choices irresistible compulsion
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
tables littles
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
writing elements want
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
labels helping genre
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
interesting community advertising
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
beach book magazines
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
compliment results ifs
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
years two pages
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
mass expensive
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
block writers-block
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
writing college courses
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
school britain
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
writing reason
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.