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One less bell to answer

By Phil Barron ⋅ February 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

In the words of Mason Cooley: “After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.” Okay, then.

Elemental

By Phil Barron ⋅ October 24, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

I mentioned earlier that in On Writing Short Stories, author Tom Bailey divides fiction into these familiar and basic elements:
character, plot, setting & time, metaphor, and voice
You could make a case for letting setting and time stand alone like the others, I suppose, but they seem rather fundamentally entwined, bonded since birth, the Castor and [...]

Whose story is it, anyway?

By Phil Barron ⋅ October 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

As I have mentioned before on this blog, I loves me some Gawker. The gossip about New Yorkers of whom I know little, the on-the-fly creativity of the commenters, the unadulterated wickedness that makes me smile since it’s directed at people other than myself. But even though the NY-based publishing world is well within the [...]

Notes from the spiralbound

By Phil Barron ⋅ September 19, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

I read Tom Bailey’s On Writing Short Stories, his section on basic elements of fiction: character, plot, setting & time, metaphor, and voice. Wasn’t sure which of these elements to focus on at first. Thought about starting with plot as it’s such an eternal challenge for me; then considered voice, since it’s a strong point [...]

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