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As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Hobbies
Introverted
Sat
Skateboarding
Social Life
Nowhere
Meant
Cultivated
Notebooks
Other Kids
Scribbling
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Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Enemy
Love Your Enemies
External
Critic
Enemies
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Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife.
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Narrative
Rare
Talked
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Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Edges
Rough
Sculpture
Chipping
Stone
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Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Fiction Writers
Hopeful
Nurturing
Variety
Science World Will
Futures
Imaginations
Science Fiction Writers
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Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts.
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Contained
Dissected
Morals
Passed
Teachings
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If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Conception
Always Your Nothing
Copy
Dynamic
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While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Flip
Good And Evil
Tales
Alternate
Coin
Different People
Entirely
Parallel
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I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to do, and what you find out is that they're going to bully you anyway. And I thought, 'You know what? If I'm going to get bullied anyway, I might as well get bullied for making a difference in the world.'
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Making A Difference
What If
World People Find
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What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.
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People
Thinking
Understanding
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As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus.
Kameron Hurley / Fiction Writer
Categories
Default
Men And Women
Static
Taboo
Love Future Science
Affairs
Essayist
Remind
Same-Sex
Thus
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