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“Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.”
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Nancy Kress
#Character Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.”
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Nancy Kress
#Writing Quotes
#Stuff Quotes
#Fiction Quotes
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“Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.159, Writer's Digest Books
#Character Quotes
#Plot Quotes
#Conflict Quotes
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“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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Nancy Kress
#Writing Quotes
#Fiction Quotes
#Stories Quotes
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“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 on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.”
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Nancy Kress
#Eye Quotes
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#Thinking Quotes
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“Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2014). “Yesterday's Kin”, p.9, Tachyon Publications
#Intelligent Quotes
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“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 story and/or talent.”
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Nancy Kress
#Two Quotes
#Rejection Quotes
#Finals Quotes
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“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan
#Thinking Quotes
#Succeed Quotes
#Grit Quotes
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“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 people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2005). “Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint”, p.18, Writer's Digest Books
#Character Quotes
#Emotional Quotes
#People Quotes
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“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.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books
#Character Quotes
#Creation Quotes
#Grows Quotes
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“Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.”
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Nancy Kress
Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books
#Plot Quotes
#Coats Quotes
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