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I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
