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Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.
