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Crossfire by Nancy Kress6/3/2023 Some writers (I’m one) start books easily, dashing into their idea and characters like surfers into a good ocean. Q: What are some of the most common problems writers face when writing the beginning of a book?Ī: There’s no one answer to this. We’re pleased to bring you this interview with her–a taste of what she offers in her book on Beginnings, Middles & Ends. Kress has written other well-received writers’ books as well, including Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint and Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities t.hat Keep Readers Captivated. This writer, during a dragging middle crisis of her own, put Kress’s book to the test and was very happy to find her techniques to be like a guiding light, a reminder of what the focus should be. The book, said by some to be the best in the Writer’s Digest series for fiction writers, contains a lot of practical advice for busting through the parts of a manuscript that trouble writers most. It was her book on the elements of fiction writing, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, that caught our eye. Nancy Kress is a prolific author, having written more than sixty short stories and more than a dozen sci-fi novels.
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