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You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Nancy Kress

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

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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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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

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Nancy Kress

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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You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress

Born: January 20, 1948 (age 76)

Bio: Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer.

Known for:

Beggars in Spain (1993)
Beggars and Choosers (1994)
Probability space (2002)
Steal Across the Sky (2009)

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