If you read something totally outlandish in history, you think, how did that happen? How did people accept that? It’s also fun because you find places where other novelists have ‘borrowed’. If you read something totally outlandish in a fantasy novel, you think, meh, whatever. I love reading history because it breaks you free of some of your own culture’s preconceptions while staying within the bounds of human psychology. For us, it worked.ĭo you mainly read fantasy fiction or are there other genres that you enjoy?įantasy is my first love, but like most writers my reading habits are fairly promiscuous. Unless your spouse thinks being poor is romantic and is tremendously patient, unbelievably supportive, and basically unconcerned about owning toys, this is a recipe for disaster. When we married, my wife and I decided I would write full-time. To support myself, I worked as a bartender and then as an English teacher. I figured that instead of doing something practical that made money until I was old enough to have the leisure to try, I’d just try. I’ve known I wanted to be a novelist since I was thirteen. Most writers have a long list of strange jobs they held before they settled into writing. I came to writing backwards, by which I mean directly. What professions were you involved with before becoming a writer?
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