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I like short stories.

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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

Nell Freudenberger

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Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Sergio Aragones

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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

Daniel Woodrell

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Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

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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.

Morley Callaghan

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I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.

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It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.

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Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

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I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

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