
Tin House Live : Rebecca Makkai on The Ear of the Story
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Importance of Being a Carer
Kathy H. has been a carer for over 11 years, and will be another eight months until the end of this year. The density of words and details we introduce that will not be instantly understood by everyone is an important thing to think about when writing fantasy or sci-fi. If I were trying to write a narrative about Hungarian stuff and I threw like 15 Hungarian words into that first paragraph, you guys will be out, right? Now that's a decision I need to make. It's more important to me that I'm writing to other people who know this culture. That's a different thing. But I need to know and density of those words andthose details is actually,
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