The Silent Voice of Your Story
September 21, 2015Essay by Lynne Gessner
No wonder readers often skip description—they were with the character, and suddenly the author steps in with dry facts.
No wonder readers often skip description—they were with the character, and suddenly the author steps in with dry facts.
I wanted my stories to transport readers to someplace new and strange.
She’d lift gifts from her suitcase, and I would forgive her desertion instantly.
I’m uncomfortable around ambulances or the overdressed crowds outside funeral parlors.
It bothered the hell out of me that people were standing in line waiting for midnight sales of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
I love fiction and creative nonfiction and derive much of my aesthetic pleasures from them.
In the battle over submission fees, what troubles me most is the idea that writers do everything and editors do nothing.