...e sounds fun - and I love the title.
Also, two quick things: First, you need a logline. This is great for a pitch, but you need to have something shorter to open the conversation and...
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...a really interesting exercise. I'd be interested to go the opposite way -- from 2000 down to 1000. I find that essays can get better as they get shorter, sort of like when you reduce...
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...ooks? Or, has it been that long?
As far as the writing, I know I write short stories, book blurbs, book reviews, inspirational pieces and other shorter things well. The novel remai...
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Oh man! Now Regina that was a post-ful that warmed my eyes to read. You are so right about that helping to bring a smile to someone's day. Shorter story I must add; I used to walk aro...
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...hey don't face additional paper and printing costs. But it seems as if our online reading habits lack patience, and online journals seem to favor shorter prose pieces. Of course, the...
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...s because the Tennessee Williams Short story competition wants 7k. I feel that I am constantly reworking stories to fit guidelines. I have some shorter stories but they're not alway...
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...o experiment with short shorts, that he considered this form the perfect lab for experimenting with words and sentences. He asked me to work with shorter sentences, which I had always...
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...t-cincher belts we used to wear. Its about 8" high all black elastic with little springs in back that massage your back when you move, Plus a shorter belt on top of that to reinfo...
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Shorter poems work well in that format; not so sure if it helps this piece all that much. The suspense loses its momentum a little over half way into part 2, and that's...
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...aks to me much more.
A writer friend I talked to likened your method to her reading series, where she condenses each chapter of her novella to a shorter compact version that can stan...
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