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At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
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.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
