Nancy Kress
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a... NANCY KRESS As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know. NANCY KRESS Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua... NANCY KRESS The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hund... NANCY KRESS Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two peo... NANCY KRESS Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'... NANCY KRESS All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n... NANCY KRESS The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte... NANCY KRESS You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam... NANCY KRESS Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a... NANCY KRESS Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ... NANCY KRESS There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s... NANCY KRESS The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these p... NANCY KRESS The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t... NANCY KRESS When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can ... NANCY KRESS In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murde... NANCY KRESS Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls al... NANCY KRESS The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether ... NANCY KRESS Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period. NANCY KRESS The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is... NANCY KRESS Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words a... NANCY KRESS Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more c... NANCY KRESS Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information,... NANCY KRESS The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the com... NANCY KRESS Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant... NANCY KRESS If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some ex... NANCY KRESS In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that some... NANCY KRESS Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara... NANCY KRESS In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nob... NANCY KRESS Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence m... NANCY KRESS For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dr... NANCY KRESS You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illus... NANCY KRESS Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal ... NANCY KRESS I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing s... NATHAN KRESS I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions. NATHAN KRESS Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori... 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