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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
