Compression: Sara Lippmann
“What I love most about compression is how it forces you to look at structure and narrative and word choice; it demands selectivity and precision, with each word going the distance in terms of depth. (Likewise, every detail must be dual-purposed, revealing as much about the observed character as the observer.) Longer fiction, too, is most successful when it applies these principles of compression—just to a bigger framework—so that every scene, every word, every plot point feels essential.” — Sara Lippmann
