One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."
Patricia C. WredeOut here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.
Patricia C. WredeIn a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseโs mother was staying at home.
Patricia C. WredeTell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
Patricia C. WredeI loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing moreโฆplus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.
Patricia C. Wrede