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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.
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 used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able to go and write and get behind the camera, that's my thing.
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.
