“Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.” PeopleWayEndsCharacterStoriesGrowsResultsStageEventsCreationEmotionalPersonalityVariousSignificantArcs Book:Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint Source: Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
“Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.” ShouldWritingHumansTwoCharacterStoriesGoalHuman BeingsComplexesAccomplishParagraph Author:Nancy Kress
“There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.” TwoStoriesTalentJudgmentFinalsReactionsRejectionSlips Author:Nancy Kress
“In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is” WritingStoriesFictionPlot Author:Nancy Kress
