It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter.
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the sto… - Stephen Graham Jones
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the sto…
- Stephen Graham Jones
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working… - Stephen Graham Jones
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working…
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. - Stephen Graham Jones
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,… - Stephen Graham Jones
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,…
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end. - Stephen Graham Jones
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. - Stephen Graham Jones
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of t… - Stephen Graham Jones
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of t…
Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often f… - Stephen Graham Jones
Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often f…
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking… - Stephen Graham Jones
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking…
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