That, combined with my typing speed, really means that I don't mind working several hours every day. Most writers don't work that many hours, so they don't get as many pages. But the key, really, is that I love to write."
From Editing to Writing
The daughter of a college math professor, Rusch grew up in a literate home; two of her elder siblings became English professors. She learned to read at three and finished her first short story when she was seven. "I wrote my first novel during lonely nights in junior high school," Rusch commented in St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers. "Escaping to other worlds has always attracted me; I cannot see this changing." Rusch took the route of a writer instead of academia, with stops in radio, retail, and office work. Working as a freelance journalist and news director, she learned the value of meeting deadlines, of working under time constraints. At age twenty-six, Rusch had completed the prestigious Clarion Science Fiction Workshop and an experimental writing course in Taos, New Mexico. In 1987 she published her first story, in Aboriginal Science Fiction, but more importantly, with Dean Wesley Smith, she cofounded Pulphouse Publishing.
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