“When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.” TryingStillsStoriesViewsPoint Of ViewAliensShort StoryDescribing Author:Karin Tidbeck
“My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.” StoriesRealityChristianWaitingWatchesHugeMembersAspectSeriesMythPreservesCultApocalypseAtticsTubs Author:Karin Tidbeck
“What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.” ThinkingWritingDoeStoriesSeemsEmotionGrowing UpTakenGrowingEmotionalExpectationsFemaleStructureConstantMalesIntellectDelvingUnemotional Author:Karin Tidbeck
“All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.” WorldWayMayStoriesEasyPrinciplesComfortableSpringConsequenceSlavePremisesBasic Principles Author:Karin Tidbeck
“If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.” IfsWantCharacterStoriesGivenAcceptingReaderMindsetSettingSettingsPremises Author:Karin Tidbeck
“What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.” WorldWantStoriesCoursesReaderDetailsAccessVaryTrippingTripping Over Author:Karin Tidbeck
“Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small market for them in Sweden and it doesn't really pay either. So, the translation goes both ways. What also factors in is that I have a different voice in English, which means that a straight translation wouldn't be the same as if I'd written it in English originally.” IfsWayWritingMeanDifferentStoriesVoicePayWrittenFactorsShort StoryTranslationsSwedenSwedishDifferent Voices Author:Karin Tidbeck
“I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.” WritingI CanStoriesClassFocusAdventureStructureAssumingThemeWorking ClassFeatsSwedishStockholmCockneys Author:Karin Tidbeck
“Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.” CountryStoriesFantasyHorrorGenre Author:Karin Tidbeck
