tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post5200263973422497169..comments2023-12-31T20:43:08.499-05:00Comments on THE STILETTO GANG: Can I Have Some Cheese with that Whine?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-71196142208257333922009-06-22T10:28:12.940-04:002009-06-22T10:28:12.940-04:00What a great way to give! Good for you guys.
I a...What a great way to give! Good for you guys.<br /><br />I also struggle with the short story form, but not as much as I used to. The truth seems to be that writing screenplays really helped my ability to get in and out of the story on the page. Scripts are such a strangely "short hand" format themselves.<br /><br />You've probably heard at sometime the same piece of writing advice I've heard again and again: if you want to write, READ. And, I think that is a good piece of advice, but . . . well, I've been a big reader of short stories for all my life and it wasn't until I started reading many(now numbering into the hundreds) of screenplays that I could really model the shorter forms in even a baseline acceptable way. I'm sure I've also read hundreds of short stories, but those didn't seem to teach me the "how" of writing them!<br /><br />But, done well, they are little gems of great beauty, aren't they? Maybe that's why reading many short stories couldn't convey how to write a good one: I was just too in love with the reading of them? (And, reading the scripts is a JOB that is seldom a pleasure!)Vicky Politonoreply@blogger.com