
Crafting Great Horror: 5 Questions for Tonia Ransom
“You never know when luck will strike, so all you can do is be ready with a body of work. Control what you can, and forget about the rest.” -Tonia Ransom
LAST CHANCE: Craft an impeccable relationship between time and structure in your short fiction. |
“You never know when luck will strike, so all you can do is be ready with a body of work. Control what you can, and forget about the rest.” -Tonia Ransom
“Time is a like a container for a short story. How much time you want to represent will guide how you tell the story.” -Chaitali Sen
“Send your work out, and send persistently–even to places that reject you five, ten times. I wouldn’t be where I am now if amazing people didn’t encourage and mentor me along the way. Don’t be afraid of mistakes, and don’t be afraid to declare what you have done.” -Meg Eden Kuyatt
“Liberate yourself from the idea of quality. I have to tell myself this every day I work on a first draft. That perfectionism is hard to shake!.” -Stacey Swann
“Dig deeply and convey what you find with objectivity. Be Chekhov, who said his only job was to know what questions to ask.” -Nan Cuba
“I started writing when I was a kid, mostly because I loved books. But it took many years of dabbling with short stories before I decided to devote myself to writing, which meant taking the time, making the space, and learning the tools to tackle every form.” -Sherri L. Smith
“I love teaching classes that demystify revision so that writers can feel more at ease with the process and learn new jumping off points for engaging with their own work.” -Stacey Swann
“All of us are constantly changing and growing, but in nonfiction, and especially in memoir, there’s always that first principle of telling the truth.” -Rachel Starnes
“The chance to go more deeply into a process or topic for twelve hours over four weeks, and develop relationships over a whole month, at a very reasonable price, is invaluable.” -Chaitali Sen
“I go back to the original reason I got started: I love stories and how they can pull me into other worlds and other perspectives.” -Charlotte Gullick
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