Tag Archives: short story
The Letter Project–Recent Letters
Check out my recent letter to Theresa at The Letter Project. It is decorated from quotes of Salinger’s short stories. *Originally appeared on Tumblr
Short Story Contest
One of my fellow writers and myself will have a competition. Who can write the most short stories by the end of September? She is already ahead of me with one completed. Hopefully I can catch up! At the very least I will have written more short stories in one month than I have previously, …
Research Leads to Strange Places
I have never liked spiders or ants. I would scream, freeze, or smash them whenever I saw them. Yet earlier this summer I wrote a short story about spiders. The last couple of days I’ve been working on a short story about ants. Writing a story about something I don’t like or fear removes the …
Prompt–Sunday, August 14
“He ached from head to foot, all zones of pain seemingly interdependent. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.” (161) The quote above is from J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” specifically the short story “For Esme—with Love and Squalor.” Reading these …
Six Words
“Narrative” is holding a contest for a six-word story. They had this to say about the form. “William Faulkner famously said that a novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet. Hemingway, with his creation of the six-word story, combined poetry and drama into a short form …
Salinger’s “Nine Stories”
I finished reading J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories.” Each one is unique and offers interesting characters and situations. I especially love it when fiction refers to poetry. Robert Stone does this in “Bear and His Daughter” with the short stories “Porque no Tiene, Porque le Falta” and “Bear and His Daughter.” For some reason it amuses …
Grow as a Writer
Today I found seven old short stories and reread them. It was interesting to see my growth from fall 2009 to fall 2010. I cringed at one I wrote in fall 2009. Never will I mention that story again except as an example of how not to write a short story. And I noticed a …
Short Story
The short story I mentioned July 4 in the post “Adventures and a short story” is finished! At least a first draft. The word count is 3800, the longest short story I’ve written to date. I’ll come back to it in a couple of days and revise it.
Poetry versus Fiction
Whew. That was a long week. Yesterday I researched several literary magazines for submitting my work. If you aren’t already familiar with http://www.duotrope.com, you should definitely check them out as a source to help you discover markets for your work. They have been immensely helpful with my journey to navigate the Internet and find magazines. …
Suzanna and Writing 