Quote: Kelly Sue DeConnick on Feminism in Her Writing
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I don’t actually set out to write political pamphlets. I’m always writing story first, and even before that I’m always writing character first – everything is born of character. But I think that I have some very strong feelings about some things; in particular, ideas of fairness and justice. And it turns out that melds beautifully with the concepts of feminism, since they’re the same fucking thing.
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
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Quote: Salman Rushdie
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Man is the animal that tells stories about himself to himself.
— Salman Rushdie, Lecture at the University of Iowa (March 2004)
It’s been years since I sat in that lecture hall, but Rushdie’s description of humans as storytelling creatures still gets me with it’s perfect simplicity.
Quote: Charlie Jane Anders on Sentences for Fiction
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People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence that actually works: a sentence that carries the reader forward from the previous sentence.
You Ain't
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Nika Harper’s recent post is gettig a lot of attention, as well it should.