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When I was little, I took ballroom dancing, but didn't do any kind of dancing again until I started this.


Nancy Gordon

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NANCY LOPEZ Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But i...
NANCY LOPEZ If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep t...
NANCY KRESS As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua...
NANCY KRESS The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hund...
NANCY KRESS Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two peo...
NANCY KRESS Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'...
NANCY KRESS All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n...
NANCY KRESS The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a...
NANCY KRESS Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ...
NANCY KRESS There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these p...
NANCY KRESS The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t...
NANCY KRESS When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can ...
NANCY KRESS In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murde...
NANCY KRESS