tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post2635446545490604403..comments2023-11-05T05:01:58.563-05:00Comments on Ward Six: The Short Story TideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-55164043366682108562007-02-10T21:47:00.000-05:002007-02-10T21:47:00.000-05:00I hope you area able to participate in SoTShoStoWr...I hope you area able to participate in SoTShoStoWriMo. If you do, be sure to drop me a line. And thanks for the link!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-28611607037990017732007-02-01T15:18:00.000-05:002007-02-01T15:18:00.000-05:00Glad to see another reader beating the short story...Glad to see another reader beating the short story drum - I've wondered about its current lack of fashionability (?), given our purportedly decreasing attention spans. I love the short story. Hope you are right about its impending return to fame and glory. <br /><br />I am also pondering a leap into the Short Story Writing Month...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-24512970277016058832007-02-01T14:22:00.000-05:002007-02-01T14:22:00.000-05:00I don't think the short story is just a workshop c...I don't think the short story is just a workshop construct -- it has a real place in the ideal magazine -- though certainly workshops have wrought some bad magic on them.<br /><br />Telling students, "Here, spend two years writing this totally fake thing," doesn't help the genre, does it?rmellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133206908895131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-83215299529645672742007-02-01T13:51:00.000-05:002007-02-01T13:51:00.000-05:00"I think lots of writers also regard the short sto..."I think lots of writers also regard the short story as an artificial workshop construct. (I've heard that said more than once by writing instructors.)"<br /><br />Hmm, interesting concept, but I don't buy that. There have always been tales, and "short fiction". <br /><br />Perhaps it seems to be a construct of workshops simply because in the short amount of time you have in an MFA program may encourage writers to write short fiction that their peers can critique without having to understand the back-story as with a novel. <br /><br />Entering the short story market such as it is seems very daunting to me. Without an agent it feels like you're releasing balloons that just float away into the atmosphere when you submit stories to little magazines. Who knows if you'll ever hear back from anyone. It takes either a delusional mind or tenacity to keep trying.<br /><br />I'm sure that has nothing to do with the lack of outlets for short stories, but it might give writers some pause before tackling a collection if they felt they'd have a better chance of being published if they wrote a novel instead.5 Red Pandashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625556395114591952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-43656664867451624012007-02-01T10:42:00.000-05:002007-02-01T10:42:00.000-05:00I think short stories represent a much tougher mar...I think short stories represent a much tougher market--to break into and to sell. I've heard of the glory days of major magazines paying for short fiction, but they seem like a legend. Now you get paid in copies by small magazines, which can be wonderful (but not financially sustainable). <br />I think lots of writers also regard the short story as an artificial workshop construct. (I've heard that said more than once by writing instructors.)<br />It take skills to write consistently good, fresh short fiction and I'm not sure that many people have those skills. <br />But when they do--hoo damn!--it's always a fun ride. <br />One of my favorites: Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16238092932081741594noreply@blogger.com