Great stuff–Small Spiral Notebook‘s Felicia Sullivan chats with Roxana Robinson:
The way that I write stories is quite different from the way I write novels. When I start a story, it’s because of a certain moment that I find particularly powerful. It can be one that I’ve witnessed, or heard of, or experienced myself, but for some reason it takes on a particular potency. That moment becomes the centerpiece of the story. My task then is to write toward that moment, creating the characters and the tension and the urgency and the engagement that will make the moment be as powerful for you, the reader, as it was for me, the writer, when you encounter it. It usually comes at the end of the story, and something else usually happens, too, something that I can’t predict.
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