From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.Jean M. Auel
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
Jean M. Auel
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Jean M. Auel
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
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I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Jean M. Auel
I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.
Jean M. Auel
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