Nancy Kress
Excerpt:
Eliot wrote: "Picture your brain as a room. The major functions are like furniture. Each in its own place, and you can move from sofa to chair to ottoman, or even lie across more than one piece of furniture at the same time. Memory is like air in the room, dispersed everywhere. Musical ability is a specific accessory, like a vase on the mantle. Anger is a Doberman Pinscher halfway out of the door from the kitchen. Algebra just fell down the heat duct. Love of your sibling is a water spill that evaporated three weeks ago."Well, maybe not accurate, Eliot thought, and hit DELETE. Or maybe too accurate for his asshole English class. What kind of writing assignment was “Explain something important using an extended metaphor”?
Bio:
Nancy Kress, an instructor at the 2011 session of Clarion West, is the author of twenty-nine books: twenty-two novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing fiction. She is perhaps best known for the Sleepless trilogy that began with Beggars in Spain. Her fiction has won four Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for Probability Space). Her most recent books are a an SF novel, Steal Across the Sky (Tor, 2009) and a YA fantasy series beginning with Crossing Over (Viking, 2010), written under the name Anna Kendall. For sixteen years Kress was the fiction columnist for Writer's Digest.
Publications:
Crossing Over (Viking) -- written as Anna KendallSteal Across the Sky (Tor)Dogs (Tachyon)"Eliot Wrote" -- www.lightspeedmagazine.comBeggars in Spain (Avon)Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Writer's Digest Books)
Writing Description:
Mostly SF, often about genetic engineering, plus YA fantasy.
Writing Goals:
10,000 words each week -- EXCEPT the week I teach Clarion West!NANCY KRESS made her write-a-thon goal for June 20-26. Supporters wanting an excerpt should email her at nankress@aol.com.
Website:
nancykress.blogspot.com
