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One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
I wrote my first short story in third grade.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
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.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
