Ask the Author: Kathryn Cramer
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Kathryn Cramer
I cut up interesting sentences and make collages from the words.
Kathryn Cramer
Knowing how to say what you mean is the best part about being a writer.
Kathryn Cramer
Because of the increasing fluidity of the way works can be published, I would advise a writer just starting out not only to learn how to write, but also to learn how to draw, to learn graphic design, to learn, at least at a basic level, how to make video. We don't know what a work of fiction is going to look like 20 years from now. This is the advice I am giving myself, and much of my summer was spent working on those skills.
Kathryn Cramer
Neal Stephenson came up with the idea for Hieroglyph. It is a response to a conversation he had with ASU President Michael Crow. Stephenson had complained that really big, visionary projects weren't being done anymore, and Crow responded that maybe that was because SF writers like Stephenson weren't writing visionary books anymore. Hieroglyph is Stephenson's answer. However, he is a novelist, not an anthologist. Ed Finn, of ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination, and I implemented Stephenson's vision.
Kathryn Cramer
I am on tour promoting Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future. And I am writing a screenplay of my story "You, in Emulation" with director Edward Cornell.
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