Anne Bishop
Once upon a time...
Have you heard this story before?
You have.
All right, then.
Oh. You want another story.
Once upon a time, there was a girl who liked to write stories. So she did. And she
had fun.
Then, one day, a thought got stuck in her head that if she couldn't write a really
great story, there wasn't much point in writing stories at all. So she stopped writing.
She was young and didn't know any better.
The girl went out into the world to make a living and do some growing up. And this
was fine and necessary.
Then, one day, several years later, a story poked its little head up out of the
creative reservoir and said, "Hello?"
It was a little story, and it looked rather forlorn, so the girl shaped it with words as
best she could so that it could go out into the world.
The story, who was very happy about this, went back to the creative reservoir to
pack its bags for its adventure into the world and told all its friends about the girl.
Not long after that, another story poked its little head up out of the creative
reservoir and said, "Hello?"
So the girl shaped it with words as best she could. And the story was very happy. So
were the other stories that came after that one.
They were little stories. They were very polite.
During the years when the girl was shaping these stories, she began reading books
and magazines about writing (and, later on, about organization and time
management). As she worked and read, she became more skillful and could shape
bigger stories.
Then came the day when something tapped her on the shoulder. When she turned
around, it wasn't a polite little story, looking forlorn and saying, "Hello?" It was a
novel that kissed her hand, smiled at her, and said, "Hello. We're going to be very
good friends for quite some time."
So that is the story of how the girl ended up sharing her living space with, among
other things, an overabundance of paperwork and a great many characters.
You want mundane data too? In that case...
Anne Bishop lives in upstate New York where she enjoys gardening, storytelling,
arts and crafts (when there is time) and music. She plays the piano, hammered
dulcimer and drum. She doesn't play them well. That is beside the point. She has
fun.
(used with permission of Anne Bishop)
Books:
Black Jewels Trilogy
Daughter of the Blood (Book 1)
Heir to the Shadows (Book 2)
Queen of the Darkness (Book 3)
Dreams Made Flesh
Tir Alainn Trilog
The Pillars of the World (Book 1)
Shadows and Light (Book 2)
The Invisible Ring
Author's Homepage:
http://www.sff.net/people/anne-bishop/
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