I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
my new website is now live on There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
NOVEL, SHORT STORY. TRY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME READING TO HELP RELEASE STRESS AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS LIFE.
At times like these, size really does matter," I point out, at I extend my ginormous umbrella over her in a way that stops any rain droplets from falling on her. My Best Valentine's Day Ever, A Short Story by Zack Love
Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works,...
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a w...
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to wr...
I still wake longing for your touch Skin open wound raw because I was told that's the only way to heal. I couldn't tame you you weren't meant for domestication meant to roam free but I still remember the first time you said "I love you" a whisper bar...
So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.
