Quotes by Stephen R. George - Page 1

For each book, the time is also broken up.
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Broken
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In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
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Sold
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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
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Effect
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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
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Horror
Seemed
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Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.
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Period
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The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
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Outline
Quite A Bit
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
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Accepted
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I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.
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Months
Draft
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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
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Bunch
Contemporary
Authors
Disparate
Influenced
Seriously
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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
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Selling
Outline
Vague Idea
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When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
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Impact
Major Impact
Sf
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Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
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Finished
Horror
Novel
Short Stories
Unpublished
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I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
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Computers
Computer
Sat
Work Home Wife
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I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
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Memorable
Variety
Hard Time
In Fact
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When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
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Analyzing
Basics
Decided
Structure
Plotting
Seriously
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During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.
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Computer
Guilty
Income
Bringing
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On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
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Dance
Cemetery
Dependent
Despite
Income
Paying
Short Stories
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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
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Advertising
Developing
Effort
Income
My Time
Support
Time Family Business
Depend
Family Time Business
Past Few Years
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The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
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Impossible
Outlining
Stuck
Benefit
Blocks
Chapter
Invest
Discover
Draft
Push
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