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Author Interviews > Nancy Springer on Genre, Style and Characters

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The second interview with cross-genre scribe Nancy Springer tackles the variations between crime and fantasy, novels and shorts:

In fantasy I get to play with exotic words, poetic effects, beautiful hypnotic language. In realistic fiction I must listen to the voice of the narrator, which usually means using ordinary diction but can be imaginative in other ways, such as metaphor. In mystery I am often armed with a hard, stark vocabulary in order to face evil.

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