A not|so|short defense of the short story

A not-so-short defense of the short story - The Georgetown Voice

The core element of a short story is brevity. It must avoid convoluted plots and unnecessary descriptions, focusing only on the essentials to bring a story ...

In Defense of the Short Story | Glass Mountain

... so many lukewarm short stories, the community has their defenses up. I'm not arguing that emerging writers should move away from the short story ...

A defense of short fiction against the epidemic of pseudo-tolkiens

_"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row." Ray Bradbury_. As above, so below. Through all the ...

Pamphlet Seven - Olives and Eyeballs: In Defense of the Short Story

Grudova defends the short story as something unique of itself, no poor cousin to the novel, and shows the ways in which it can function in a sharp and pungent ...

Blog: In defense of the short storyIn defense of the short story ...

So why not call them chapters, when strung together to make a coherent whole? Each chapter in The Juliet Stories was written as a short story ...

An Unnecessary Defense of William T. Vollmann's Last Stories and ...

This new book, Last Stories and Other Stories, is certainly more of a short story collection. If there is any theme that groups or connects ...

A Reasonably Short, Fairly Impassioned Defense of Reading Fiction

I love seeing the world through another set of eyes — even though they're fictional. And so reading fiction also makes you more tolerant. It ...

In Defense of Short Fiction | Penprints - Rosalie Valentine

In Defense of Short Fiction · Writers, listen up and write this down: the. power. of. a. story. does. not. lie. in. its. length. · So, peeps, talk ...

In defense of bite-sized fiction - The Michigan Daily

... narrative, we are left with a relatively small period to do so in short stories. This format creates a unique flavor of intimacy. With such ...

Jonathan Papernick's Defense of the Short Story

... so many other books are not deemed worthy of discussion. Publishers and agents love to say that people don't read short stories anymore; I ...

Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism Short Stories

A short story collection exploring unexpected, fantastical futures and how we cope in them. Your friend creates an award-winning VR game—based ...

At the Library: In defense of the humble short story | | thewesterlysun ...

It's not until I'd got about thirty pages into her beautiful prose that I thought, “Hang on, this is a short story!” And so it was. UnAccustomed Earth. I ...

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. A work of art can hardly be too short, for its climax is its merit. A story can never be too ...

In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer - Literary Hub

Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a recipient of the Richard Yates Award for Short Fiction. Her first novel ...

Self-Defense | Short Fiction - | Sweatpants & Coffee

She's fast going limp, and this is not good. She's got to keep pushing, so I break protocol and whisper, “Who am I, really, right now?” She ...

Artifice and Artificiality in the Short Story: A Defense

These critics ignore that at the very height of the so-called "artificial-ending" phase of the short story in America, writers were so aware of ...

In Self-Defense | East of the Web

A short time before, obeying orders from my wife - who was seeking a Viennese touch - I had to put in an appearance at a delicatessen on Cabildo Avenue to buy ...

In Defense of Fiction | Desiring God

I am asking you as a reader of this article to commit to a two-week experiment in reading fiction. Choose a novel or collection of short stories ...

585: In Defense of Ignorance - This American Life

Today's entire show is a defense of not thinking about it, of not knowing-- a defense, in short, of ignorance. We have three very different stories.

Overcoming the Self-Defense Reaction of Making Ourselves Smaller ...

Tell your story. It is a powerful one. And so I did, write, as Anne Lamont says, “Bird by Bird,” or story by story, ...