We all know Red Riding never told the whole story. Delighted this made it into the Write in for National Flash Fiction Day. The Write-In: 'Into the Woods' by Jackie Morris https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2023/06/into-woods-by-jackie-morris.html?spref=tw
I've been reading a lot - A LOT - of short stories this year. Sometimes it seems as if I could one day be really very good at writing them, others not so much. Sometimes I get a bit bogged down by the lyric beauty of the vast majority of the short story winners because, … Continue reading What do you look for in a short story?
A stranger said some lovely things about a couple of my poems yesterday, which left me feeling warm and fuzzy, and also a bit ... sad? ... perplexed? ... because I haven’t written poetry since July. I turned my back on it to master the art of the short story. Turns out storytelling is harder … Continue reading Work in progress
Yesterday I told George Saunders I had a new love. Today, his new book arrived in Kindle (my younger self must have pre-ordered it - ah, the wisdom of youth) and now it’s all back on with me and George. A swim in a Pond in the Rain takes us through seven Russian short stories … Continue reading Review: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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