Originally posted on: Thu 14th Mar 2013
There’s something very satisfying, and quite difficult, about achieving a whole story, complete with beginning, middle and end, in the barest minimum of words. Some writers, like Raymond Carver and Alice Munro, have chosen to spend their working lives mastering it, eschewing the architectural rigours of producing a novel in favour of the watchmaker-like craft of short fiction. So as…
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There’s something very satisfying, and quite difficult, about achieving a whole story, complete with beginning, middle and end, in the barest minimum of words. Some writers, like Raymond Carver and Alice Munro, have chosen to spend their working lives mastering it, eschewing the architectural rigours of producing a novel in favour of the watchmaker-like craft of short fiction. So as…
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