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  • – 6 – - Form and length

  • Sarah Burton, Jem Poster
  • Book:
    The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write
    Published online:
    17 February 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 70-82

  • Summary

    The short story is not just a story that is short: the short story generally differs significantly from the novel in terms of scope, timeframe, number of characters and locations. How details acquire priority in short fiction. The relationships between the short story, flash fiction and poetry. The challenges and pleasures of short and very short fiction. The usefulness of short form writing to the developing novelist in the scope it offers for experimentation with narrative voice, characterisation and dialogue, as well as its value in its own right.

    ‘It is a complexity of afterthought, a psychological or emotional residue, that we seek to leave with the reader following the intense experience of consuming a short story.’