Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. - Nancy Kress
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
- Nancy Kress
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse peop… - Nancy Kress
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse peop…
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing… - Nancy Kress
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing…
Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up. - Nancy Kress
Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. - Nancy Kress
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.
Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit. - Nancy Kress
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your … - Nancy Kress
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your …
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. - Nancy Kress
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is - Nancy Kress
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
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