The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.