If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventure… - Karin Tidbeck
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventure…
- Karin Tidbeck
I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it… - Karin Tidbeck
I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it…
Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status. - Karin Tidbeck
Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.
Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labele… - Karin Tidbeck
Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labele…
Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea. - Karin Tidbeck
Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.
When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien … - Karin Tidbeck
When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien …
I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does. - Karin Tidbeck
I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot. - Karin Tidbeck
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.
I have control of my own style. - Karin Tidbeck
I have control of my own style.
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