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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Short Story Advice From a Great

13 comments:

Paul Brazill said...: Great stuff. bet I don't do loads of it, though!; 7:01 PM
Lost Wanderer said...: Excellent video, and to the point. I think that advice applies to novels as well as short stories.; 7:12 PM
Bob Jacobs said...: Loved it. Thanks.

Now I'm off to drag my Vonnegut shorts from the shelf to see if he followed his own advice ;-)

Cheers,
Bob; 8:01 PM
Tania Hershman said...: Thanks for this, Nik, I like his advice a lot - except the part about telling the reader as much information as possible as soon as possible. I don't think I'd keep reading a short story if I got told everything up front. What would be the point??; 8:31 PM
Col Bury said...: Interesting - thanks.; 10:52 AM
annie clarkson said...: brilliant, loved this... (not sure about the soundtrack...!); 2:45 PM
Megan said...: Brilliant.
I especially love no.5
And 6 (-;; 10:53 PM
SueG said...: This is fabulous. Thanks so much for finding it!!; 10:09 AM
@BenDawe said...: Thankyou, thankyou. That was perfect. So convincing, reassuring. Memorable.I'll be back for another slice of that.; 12:12 PM
Jenzarina said...: Good stuff! Thanks for posting it.; 12:27 PM
Nik Perring said...: Thanks for your comments, folks. Glad you found it of use.

Bob - did you and did he?

Tania - good point. I think what he was getting at (well, how I've interpreted it) was more of a: Get On With The Story All Ready!! thing.

Annie, hmm, yes. I have no idea why that soundtrack is appropriate!

Megan - 5's my favourite as well.

Thanks again, one and all.

Nik; 7:43 PM
Nik Perring said...: PS Lost Wanderer, I agree - I think it's appropriate to stories, no matter how big they are, or complicated.; 7:43 PM
Emma said...: Oh what fun,

and I love the "should cockroaches eat the last few pages" bit!; 8:34 PM

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