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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
~ V. E. Schwab
Advice
Aspiring
Authors
Away
Be Brave
Best
Brave
Enough
Give
Goes
I Can
Integral
Integral Part
Journey
Like
Never
Part
Rejection
Simple
Sounds
Thing
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
~ V. E. Schwab
Body
Chess
Combination
Every
Fencing
Game
Intent
Living
Match
Mind
Moment
Must
Only
Together
Where
Work
Work Together
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
~ V. E. Schwab
Almost
Always
Before
Between
Death
Doors
How
Human
Knew
Know
Life
Life And Death
Magic
Monster
Mundane
Physical
Play
Setting
Start
Tendency
Wanted
World
Worlds
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
~ V. E. Schwab
About
Am
Believer
Binds
Care
Characters
don't Care
Enough
Firm
Firm Believer
Fun
Good
Happening
I Am
Lasting
Makes
Plot
Read
Them
Us
Way
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I like to play with tropes.
~ V. E. Schwab
Like
Play
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
~ V. E. Schwab
Anything
Bad
Bad Weather
Been
Being
Getting
Give
Hate
I Love
Keeps
Known
Life
Limb
Love
Me
Multiple
My Life
My Soul
New
New Places
Occasions
Off
Piece
Places
Planes
Portion
Savings
Say
Soul
Weather
Would
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
~ V. E. Schwab
Constantly
Critique
Down
Fail
Frequently
Get
Goal
Judgment
More
Myself
Never
Often
Order
Out
Put
Rejection
Rejections
Simply
Still
Succeed
Than
Turned
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I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
~ V. E. Schwab
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Always
Build
Complexity
Core
Getting
I Think
Lot
Most
Natural
Readers
Remember
Risk
Simple
Start
Tangled
Tempted
Things
Think
Writers
You
Your
Yourself
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
~ V. E. Schwab
Bride
Captivated
Fence
Fourteen
Had
Held
Learn
Life
Mum
My Life
Never
Princess
Said
Sword
Time
Want
Watching
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
~ V. E. Schwab
Age
Athletic
Child
Competitive
Grown
Grown-Up
Gymnastics
Months
Player
Since
Soccer
Softball
Up
Volleyball
Years
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I'm pagan.
~ V. E. Schwab
Pagan
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
~ V. E. Schwab
Action
All-Out
Always
Become
Burden
Chapters
Characters
Front
Hard
Introducing
Invested
Lay
Make
New
Opening
Out
People
Put
Readers
Rules
Set
Story
Sure
Them
Which
Will
World
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
~ V. E. Schwab
Matters
People
Why
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So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.
~ V. E. Schwab
Add
Dealing
Dragon
Establish
Every
Everything
Fantasy
Go
Just
Magic
Make
Many
Means
Natural
Natural Order
Order
People
Realism
Regardless
Rules
So Many People
Some
Sure
Thing
Think
Throw
Up
Want
Whether
World
Writing
You
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
~ V. E. Schwab
Any
Face
Gotten
Instead
Invincible
Like
People
Situation
Stronger
Think
Weaker
Where
Young
Young People
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