If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. Here are seven stories that I recommend to students in my online fiction writing class, MASTER THE SHORT STORY. The School, by Donald Barthelme “The School” is one of my favorites. A group of school children face one tragedy after another…Continue reading 7 Stories for Writers to Read & Study
Category: short story writing
CNET begins publishing fiction : Technically Literate and my story, The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley
CNET kicked off its brand new fiction series this month with my short story, The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley. The CNET fiction series is edited and curated by Janis Cooke Newman (author most recently of A Master Plan for Rescue). CNET’s fiction series features stories about tech, beautifully illustrated and animated (Roman Murdov…Continue reading CNET begins publishing fiction : Technically Literate and my story, The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley
First Lines in Fiction – Black Glass
Black Glass, by Karen Joy Fowler Great First Lines in Fiction First published in 1998, this book of short stories by the author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is just as rich and complex and strange as it was seventeen years ago. If you’ve read it before, it’s worth revisiting, and if you haven’t,…Continue reading First Lines in Fiction – Black Glass
How to End a Story
Stories are like relationships: the beginning is always so much fun, and the ending is fraught with turmoil. When I sit down to start a story, the first sentence just sort of comes to me. The second sentence too. If I’m lucky, the third swiftly follows. The inimitable short story writer Kate Braverman once told a…Continue reading How to End a Story