What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.
What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single strin… - Roy Kesey
What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single strin…
- Roy Kesey
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension a… - Roy Kesey
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension a…
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing tic-tac-note… - Roy Kesey
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing tic-tac-note…
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. - Roy Kesey
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The… - Roy Kesey
I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The…
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often tha… - Roy Kesey
Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often tha…
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engag… - Roy Kesey
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engag…
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's becaus… - Roy Kesey
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's becaus…
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it … - Roy Kesey
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it …
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