the word of the OSC
Basa.
"The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try."
- Introduction, Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
That followed a crazy history spanning a decade of why we now have the Ender's Game novel, Speaker, and Xenocide. Lesson: you can't predict where a book will take you. Blocks do happen; it's a matter of finding out the reasons for them, and not to quit on a good idea.
EK 8 )
"The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try."
- Introduction, Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
That followed a crazy history spanning a decade of why we now have the Ender's Game novel, Speaker, and Xenocide. Lesson: you can't predict where a book will take you. Blocks do happen; it's a matter of finding out the reasons for them, and not to quit on a good idea.
EK 8 )