What writer or writers would you most like to meet?

Yes you have been lucky :-) Were you able to ask them any questions about their writing? It would be interesting to know how these writers come up with their ideas and what motivates them to keep writing. Thanks for your comment :-)

I guess I don't ask those kinds of questions. I want to know what they are doing next, how they came up with their current stories, but I'm not sure they can tell you. I think a large part of why they keep writing is because that's their job, Mercedes Lackey talked about how she WORKS on her writing. She gets up, goes out and deals with her rescued birds with her husband, has breakfast and writes. She stops midday, deals again with the birds that need it, eats a bit and writes all afternoon. Late afternoon, she stops and she and her husband go out and work/feed the birds again, treating injuries, etc. Then she makes dinner and sometimes she goes back to her writing. Now, she doesn't do the same story the whole day, she says. She works the new stuff in the morning, reworks stuff in the afternoon and maybe works on outlines for new stories or going over manuscripts in the evening. She works hard on her "job." She writes with her husband, Larry Dixon, who is also an artist, she also writes with other writers, helping them if she can. So, if you want to be a writer, you have to work hard.