Lengths Of The Journey To A Good Story The lengths to which a writer will go to complete a story is truly a mystery. Just like real people, no two writers are the same, and for that reason, the journey to the story’s end will always be different. Even if two people follow the same “template”, there will be slight variations in how they follow it. Some might follow the template, starting their writing in the morning while others might…
Chemistry Department Short Stories “I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in…
First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a…