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So at Dragon Con I had a reading this year. Yeah, looks like this is the last year I get to bring all my books – too many, to heavy! I read the two flash fiction pieces in Jagged Fragments<\/a>, “If Looks Could Kill” and “The Secret of the T-Rex’s Arms”, as well as reading the first chapter of Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine<\/em><\/a>, a bit of my and Jim Davies’ essay on the psychology of Star Trek’s artificial intelligences<\/a>, and even a bit of my very first published story, “Sibling Rivalry<\/a>“. I also gave the presentation I was supposed to give at the SAM Talks before I realized I was double booked; that was “Risk Getting Worse”.<\/p>\n But that wasn’t recorded, so, oh dang, you’ll have to either go to my Amazon page to get my books<\/a>, or wait until we get “Risk Getting Worse” recorded. But my interview with Nancy Northcott for the Daily Dragon, “Robots, Computers, and Magic<\/a>“, however, IS online, so I can share it with you all. Even more so, I want to share what I think is the most important part of my interview:<\/p>\n DD: <\/strong>Do you have any one bit of advice for aspiring writers?<\/em><\/p>\n AF:<\/strong> Write. Just write. Don\u2019t worry about perfection, or getting published, or even about pleasing anyone else: just write. Write to the end of what you start, and only then worry about what to do with it. In fact, don\u2019t even worry about finishing everything\u2014don\u2019t be afraid to try anything. Artists know they need to fill a sketchbook before sitting down to create a masterwork, but writers sometimes get trapped trying to polish their first inspiration into a final product.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get trapped on the first hill! Whip out your notebook and write. Write morning pages. Write diary at the end of the day. Write a thousand starts to stories, and if one takes flight, run with it with all the abandon you have in you. Accept all writing, especially your own. Just write. Write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s it. To read more, check out the interview here<\/a>, or see all my Daily Dragon mentions at Dragon Con here<\/a>, or check out my interviewer Nancy Northcott’s site here<\/a>. Onward!<\/p>\n -the Centaur<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So at Dragon Con I had a reading this year. Yeah, looks like this is the last year I get to bring all my books – too many, to heavy!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,209,255,197,217,43,200,199,46,220,202],"tags":[84,4,104,66,129,5],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appearances","category-computing","category-featured","category-fiction","category-intelligence","category-research","category-science-fiction","category-steampunk","category-talks","category-technique","category-writing","tag-dragon-con","tag-dragon-writers","tag-dragoncon","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","tag-thinking-ink-press","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-2017-08-31-04.07.05.png\")
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