Inneresting 84
issue 84
January 14th, 2021
Adapting (Your Thinking About) Short Stories
Filming Short Fiction: Robert McGuire looks at how the economy of short stories makes them well-suited to adapt as features. Furthering the point, Emily Temple collects a list of movies based on short stories.
Short Story Examples: BookBub shares a list of fantastic short story collections, including work from Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, and Zadie Smith.
Writing With A Short Fiction Mindset
Donal Ryan collects advice from short story writers (and suggests some further reading).
Raymond Carver’s On Writing keeps it clear and simple, with advice like “Get in, get out. Don’t linger.
Suzanne Grove zooms in on some of Raymond Carver’s opening moments, examining how to craft a strong opening hook.
Kurt Vonnegut offers his rules on how to write a short story.
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Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, last issue’s most clicked link was Blair Hurley describing how to find more interesting scenes at the margins of the scenes you assume you must write.
Other Inneresting Things
Yair Rosenberg explores the disconnect when media journalists treat the loudest critical voices as the consensus view of the whole audience.
Jaime Green reminds everyone that the pandemic is nowhere near over for parents of young children.
Johnny Marr explains how The Smiths’ “How Soon is Now?” grew from an amalgamation of his memory of the song “Disco Stomp” and Bo Diddley.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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