Some Things about Short Stories
An expert on the short story Richard Summers, who has more than 19 years of teaching techniques of short story writing at the University of Arizona, United States, in his book "Craft Of The Short Story", the more I use to write this essay, saying no one can teach a young author how he should write. He should have led, he may be helped by the criticisms and suggestions, or the essay may be repaired under the leadership of a person, instead be shown to him about that on the technical writing. But in the end he had to teach himself through trial and error, by writing and writing once again, with street use diligently every opportunity to pour his own thoughts and little by little overcome all the mistakes so that finally he has a style of writing, which if it has once found, will not disappear again from him.
Some Things about Short Stories
Formulation of Short Stories
What exactly is a short story called? Short story or short story is it? Are all the short stories that include groups of short stories? Not forever. Because of the long story short something not measure whether something is a story one of those short story or not. There is a short story consisting of 500 words but there are also comprised up to 40,000 words, as the short story The Turn of the Screw Henry James essay. Likewise, maybe not many people know that book that the famous Robert Louis Stevenson "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was listed by the experts in group short story. Therefore, short-story words are sometimes used as a short-story one, so there is the term "short-short story" and "long short-story".
Thus we put forward some formulas from several experts.
Richard Summers in his book quoted above says: ... complete formula that cannot be given, as an attempt to provide a complete picture will fail ... Therefore, why should we bother to give this formula? The reason is, with an analysis of what the short story is and what is not, the authors studied short story writing is first acquired. An essay is not unusual short stories. A personal vignette of a man is rather than a short story. A painting is not a short story. A conversation does not always include the short story. Notes on events, such as a diary or the ins and outs of a ship which sank are not short stories. However, a vignette - that is a story about a little incident in life (which is usually ironic) can and often included in the class of short stories. A sketch something personal, a record of events, a conversation, instead of a picture can be changed into a short story by making a small change in the attitude of writing and writing purposes.
Brander Mathews, formerly professor in the Dramatic Literature at the University of Columbia in his book "The Philosophy of The Short Story" put the accent on the form. He writes: "It's not a short story if there was nothing to be told. A short story in which nothing happens anything is impossibility at all." According to Mathews, there are a difference between a short story with a vignette is "if a sketch may be likened to a still eleven, in the short story something always happens. A sketch may be an outline of something personal, or a description of someone's feelings, but in the story Short something must be done, there should be a deed (action)”
Professor Stewart Beach, lecturer on Short Story Writing at New York University, in his book "Short Story Technique", providing a formula as follows: "Given the limits of short stories, including the simplest form of fiction). The difference with romances, stories place for a short break something less complicated situation. "
In "A Book of The Short Story", Professor E.A. Cross said: "Along with romances, short stories is a fiction work. But in contrast with romances, whose only effect is usually only one impression, and not a deliberate attempt to unite the various materials into unity." Henry Scidel Candby in the preface to "The Book of The Short Story" says, "the impression that one and live, that's supposed to be the result of a short story."
There are many other definitions have been given by the experts about what the short story is, but the opinions on the above would be enough to give a little understanding about what is included in the short story and what is not.
Two Kinds of Short Stories
There are two kinds of short stories, which experts say the difference can be likened to the difference between popular music with classical music.
Short stories that first one of those so-called "quality stories" or stories that have pricing literature. The second class of short stories is a commercial (or craft) stories, which can also be understood as the words themselves are the stories that are sold to raise money. But this does not mean that we should despise such stories, or look at the caliber of its author is not big enough, because many well-known authors in addition to his work that sincerely, has written "commercial stories", such as 0. Henry, Bret Harte, James M. Cain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, W. Somerset Maugham, and others "Commercial stories" written for a particular market as well as someone who the author of the famous author who sometimes needs the money.
Readers generally prefer a romantic language, the plot is hilarious, great romance between two young people and so on, and "commercial stories" are used to write about these things, more easily sold because of a story based on "a handsome man who met with women beautiful "is still very popular among readers everywhere.
"Quality stories" that have pricing literature is an even more serious from authors who do not remember whether the essay will be paid one or not. Create a market he became the second question, about the first is that he should write to pour out his heart and mind of fruit with a vengeance, and he always tried to keep quality story, exceeding quality stories of the ancients.
In America, where short stories are very popular at all, "quality stories" usually published in magazines literature with no or very little pay honoraria, such as Partisan Review, Arizona Quarterly, Kenyon Review, Quarterly Review of Literature and a few others. But if a person short story writer has been able to be loaded in one of these magazines, he will receive awards both as an author.
"Commercial stories" published in the usual popular magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Collier 's, Ladies Home Journal, Mac CALL "S, American Magazine, and others.
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