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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Did you read short short stories?
One that belongs to the guy mentioned in the article is here.
I do admit that 200 words or less looks like a challenge. |
Fun fact: I hated American literature until I was introduced to American short stories late in college. It turns out that -- for my tastes, at least -- my home country churns out crappy novels but GREAT short stories.
Of course, I'm completely generalizing, as always.
But definitely give me "The Yellow Wallpaper" over "Moby Dick" any day of the week.
Short stories are very difficult because you basically have to convey most of the same information as a "regular" story in a very limited word budget. Every word choice has to be meaningful and economical in the extreme. I don't write short stories myself, but I do admire people who can pull them off well. It's not easy to write a good short story.