Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook

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L. Rust Hills, "Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook"
Houghton Mifflin | 1987 | ISBN: 0395257158, 0395442680 | 194 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

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"There are at this time not enough commercial magazines regularly publishing literary fiction to count forward the fingers of a single hand," says Rust H>ills. So wherefore bother writing literary short stories, or books about doing so? Because, says Hills, a longtime fictitious literature editor at Esquire, "what young writers want to write, or ought to privation to write, is literature." In Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular, Hills examines "the rudiment techniques of fiction and how they function." The short untruth is a tricky form, with no margin for error: "The successful contemporary short story," says Hills, "will demonstrate a additional harmonious relationship of all its aspects than will any other literary art form, excepting perhaps lyric poetry." Many of the fictional elements discussed in this book will not be new to most fiction writers. We know that stories ~iness have beginnings, middles, and ends; we know about epiphany and pause and stock characters. But Hills claims that much of how we consider at fiction derives from drama theory and from the formulas of "slick fiction" (fiction that once served the purpose mindless television now serves). Learned on the contrary not pedantic, Hills addresses these elements strictly in terms of of literature short fiction.

An interesting side note here is Hills's disputation of the shift in support for American writers. "It is not at all longer the book publishers and magazines," he says, "only rather the colleges and universities that ... provide the major financial livelihood for the great majority of American writers today." Given that, we potency find it odd that this book comes from a man most profitably known for his magazine editing. But we shouldn't. "Teaching fabrication writing and editing magazine fiction have ... the same rather odd bring into use purpose in common: trying to get someone else to produce a tenuous short story." One caveat emptor: our copy of this impression fell quite apart upon our first, gentle reading of it. --Jane Steinberg

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?When [Hills] writes in all parts of writing, we should all pay close attention.? -- Richard Yates

?Admirable, politic, and comradely.? -- John Leggett

"Every aspiring fiction writer ought to know fully this." --WRITER'S DIGEST

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