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Date Posted: Tue, June 13 2023, 18:55:00
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, June 14, 2023

The following quote is from The Outlandish Companion, Volume 2 by Diana Gabaldon, Part Five, “Romance and the Written Word.” Copyright ©️2015 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“Now, as I’ve noted elsewhere, I wrote Outlander for practice and chose the broad general category of ‘historical fiction’ on grounds that I was a research professor and knew my way around a library. As I wrote, though, I used any element, literary device, or classical trope that struck my fancy—and I read a lot, I like all kinds of things…and I used ’em all. After all, it didn’t matter what ‘kind’ of book this was—no one was ever going to see it!
Well, the best-laid plans of mice and men, and all that…Stuff happened, and I put a small bit of the book in the library of the CompuServe Literary Forum in order to win an argument with a man about what it feels like to be pregnant. Everyone who’d been following the argument went to read the piece and came back asking for more. So I’d put up bits and pieces now and then…and people began asking, ‘What sort of book is this?’
‘Beats me,’ I’d reply, and go on working.”

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