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I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
