Craft is the manipulation of story elements: plot, characterization, setting, dialogue, theme, point of view, imagistic language, voice. Craft is essential. It holds the story together. But what holds the writer together? If the writer loses confidence and quits writing, craft techniques are useless.
Ricki Thompson
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I think of craft as the mechanics or body, art as the ephemeral soul. There are lots well crafted but soulless books.
When both are present at a high level, you have a masterpiece.
As to what hold the writer together, i call upon the soul.
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