Comments on: Briefer Stories for Our Times https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/14/brief-stories-for-our-times/ creative writing workshops & community Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Eli Z https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/14/brief-stories-for-our-times/#comment-18 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:14:39 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-18 In reply to Judith.

Read about that actually. Twitter-fic’s most popular star? A cat. A f***ing cat.

]]> By: Judith https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/14/brief-stories-for-our-times/#comment-17 Fri, 15 May 2009 22:44:24 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-17 In reply to Eli Z.

Timely comment, Eli. Check out a terrific article posted yesterday on Salon.com: Call me Ishmael. The end. – Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction. Can’t get much shorter than 140 characters. This reply is probably longer than that!

]]> By: Eli Z https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/14/brief-stories-for-our-times/#comment-16 Fri, 15 May 2009 16:39:41 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-16 A cattle-call of prominent authors (Updike, Vonnegut, Faulkner, etc. ad nauseum) have said the short story was the most challenging and their favorite form. It’s the challenge of creating a great commercial – 30 seconds or less to establish character, situation, conflict and resolution. Nevertheless, the American novel has been growing shorter and simpler for at least a hundred years. Perhaps in the next century we’ll have single page novellas and ten word stories on best seller lists.

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