Words to Write By
From Kristen Millares Young
“If you ever find yourself stuck while writing a scene, try switching the point of view or the perspective from which you are narrating. Getting into someone else’s head can be a good way to understand the dynamics that had been bedeviling you, and so too the shift between the third, first and second person. “
Kristen Millares Young is a journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards, Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. Her work appears in the Washington Post, Guardian, Literary Hub, and the anthologies Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Latina Outsiders, and Alone Together. A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is the editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. She was the 2023 Distinguished Visiting Writer for Seattle University and UW Bothell.