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What Grey’s Anatomy Taught Me about Writing

Originally posted 11-19-2010 Recently, in a desperate bit to impress a woman, I watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.  (Okay, it wasn’t really desperate or any particular bid to impress her.  We were...

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The Short Story: Getting Started

Originally posted 12-21-2010 There is no right way to start a short story.  There are certainly no hard and fast rules about it, at any rate.  When setting out to write a short story, I find it helpful...

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The Short Story: Getting Started – Part 2

Originally posted 12-22-2010 I said we’d talk more this time about setting. At the risk of being called out for oversimplification, outside of pure genre fiction, I find setting to be a matter of...

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The Short Story: Structure

Originally posted 12-23-2010 A short story can be structured in a myriad of ways, but experience dictates to me that the VAST majority of stories do not need complicated structures to work well. More...

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The Short Story – Technical Details

Originally posted 7-8-2011 Writers love to talk about the craft of writing. In some cases, they love talking about it so much that they never get around to actual writing. However, at the risk of sound...

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The Short Story: Pacing

Originally posted 2-27-2012 Pacing a short story may very well be the hardest element in the whole process because it has so much to do with what kind of story you’re writing. Short stories in the...

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