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• The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

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  Writing, Opportunity, Conflict

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.102, Del Rey

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• I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

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  Magic, Fabric, Want

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• She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

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  Girl, Clever, Sky

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.7, Del Rey

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• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

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  New York, Book, Fiction

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

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  Character, Four, Want

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• I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

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  Thinking, Dust, Incomplete

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.30, Del Rey

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• For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

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  World, Attractive

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• When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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  Kids, Imagination, Entertainment

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• If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Ifs

  Terry Brooks (2008). “The Heritage of Shannara”, p.176, Del Rey

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

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  Mazes, Tonight, Done

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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• My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

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  Years, Different, Thirty

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• Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

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  Country, Thinking, Imagination

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• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

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  Writing, Important, Needs

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

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  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

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  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

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  Writing, Suspense, Way

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• The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

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  Book, Adventure, Missing

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• Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

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  Book, Thinking, Next

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• What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

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  Writing, Want, Storytelling

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• Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

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  Attitude, Princess, Cat

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• Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

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  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

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  Writing, Florida, Connections

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• I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

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  Book, Mind, Made

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• You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

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  Fighting, Giving, Feelings

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Elf Queen of Shannara”, p.164, Del Rey

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