The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

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• Lynn Abbey:

  One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

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  My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some

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  I'm always trolling for trivia.

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  If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas?

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  Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

• Lynn Abbey:

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• Lynn Abbey:

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  For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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• Lynn Abbey:

  Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with m