Will Brown
Will Brown
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In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.
cattle hat interior ken minerals oversight secretary turned
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
good harder looks stuff
It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say.
benefits besides capital cleverness himself lingering markets normal productive provides richard somebody street wall
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.
perhaps written
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
average joined
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.
break editor hard magazine market names sell stories tales willing
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
bubbling fascinated interest interested
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
duty
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
along merely moaning nice point scrape seeing work
Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
figures genre
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
life
You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.
five next periods thousand three
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
published sf type waiting wondering writer
Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.