by Lacey N. Dunham | Jul 16, 2012 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SOCIAL READING TAKES FLIGHT IN SERIALIZED NOVEL Readers’ Feedback Will Write Novel MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Procrastination is a writer’s enemy. Yet for writer John Henry Fleming, the real writing often occurs...
by Ilse Munro | May 30, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
…then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down...
by Susan Rukeyser | May 22, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
The short story is a sit-down dinner. It opens with an amuse-bouche to stimulate the salivary glands. Then comes a parade of flavors and textures, each adding a layer of understanding: the bitter crunch of melancholy, velvety arousal, tough and chewy survival, sharp...
by Mickey Laurence Cohen | May 3, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
I hate short stories. Hate to read them, not a big fan of writing them. I like novels, I like the feeling I’m entering an entirely new world, or creating one. The best novels can build their own vocabulary, even a new language altogether. Short stories are windows....
by Mike Maggio | May 2, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
The short story is the crystalline form of the novel; that is, it takes the essence of what makes a novel (character, plot, dramatic development) and condenses it into a form that is whole and pleasing. What the novelist accomplishes in two or three hundred pages, the...
