When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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