Daily Archives: December 20, 2006
Are Short Stories Necessary?
Posted on December 20, 2006 37 Comments
Justine Larbalestier is thinking about short stories and whether they are a necessary part of every writers’ writing diet: Given that I can’t write a decent short story to save my life and have sold three novels I don’t think short stories are not necessary to build a career as a novelist. Short stories and […]
On Carl Sagan
Posted on December 20, 2006 20 Comments
When I was eleven, I thought Carl Sagan was the coolest guy in the world. And that was because he was speaking right at me. At the age of 11, in 1980, I was a kid utterly convinced that he was going to grow up to be an astronomer — I loved the stars, I […]
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