A sign hung above the counter in a neighborhood deli said, “One sandwich isn’t enough? Two sandwiches are too many? Try a sandwich and a half!” Suitable for the genre of writing, perhaps it can be accurately translated into “Shorter prologue? Too long a novel? Try a story.” This type of writing is a medium that allows for the development of modest ideas, or large ideas developed more modestly or fruitfully than open ways.
Let’s consider the cake metaphor. whole, large, round, two-layered and concrete cake That cake would be like new on the table. The whole schmeer. The poetic equivalent might be an epic of some kind. For a whole bed or something. “War and Peace” is no more a long or complex work than the “Iliad”. There are two forms of the whole cake.
A short story, or, depending on the age, we are placed, a short story or “nouvelle” from French in the 17th century, it would be like a slice of that cake. Less ambitious. Fewer (if any) are under scheming or ‘lite motives.’ The space of time is covered, usually more limited and much fewer calories and is much appreciated by the attention challenged because it can be finished in one sitting. Just like a pure, that’s the bed. On the reading of delightful diets.
At the smallest end of the spectrum, from which I have selected a few representative examples, there are essays (half a slice of cake, such as is requested by someone who is trying to watch his weight but only wants to enjoy a tad dessert. also medium-length poems, which are something between mica (haiku ) they could compare, “a sliver” (something between a smidgeon) or a full fork (a song with five ten stanzas). you want to eat or create as much as you want.
Short stories, like cupcakes, have their own characters and conventions. But in the same way that everything to a quality cupcake recipe, ingredients and care in preparation – that’s a short story.
Every short story needs a beginning, middle and end. Because it is a short form, it is less helpful for the writer to find his way through experimental paths wandering through his creation, as is often the case in fictional prose narrative, the short story requires great study and discipline and should not. it can be confused with making it somehow ‘easier’ than longer fictional works. It is not. Oh, I believe that a man can write 30 pages in much less time than to write three thousand, but that will not affect the quality of the writing in those pages.
Plan it. Keep it short. All writers are familiar with resisting the temptation to create paths and then wander them to explore where they go. Leave marginal or non-essential characters for other stories. Reading some of the world’s great masters of short stories such as Poe, Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Chekhov, Hemmingway or Tolstoy – one quickly realizes and understands that when it comes to short stories, less is more. Less explicitly. The reader does more work!
Just decide how much cake you want, and you’ll enjoy every piece. The short story is no less – it is another type of creative writing. Equally challenging, although in a different way, from the creation of longer works, as a form he left an indelible mark in the world of literature and the enjoyment of literature.
