An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
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