Read Like A Writer

There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Monday, April 11, 2022

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol. 004 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol. 004 (Audio Book)

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol. 004 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Genre(s): Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Story Collection

 

CONTENTS 


  1. The  Bet  by  Anton  Chekhov  (1860-1904),  read  by  William  Coon  -  00:17:50 
  2. The  Birth  Mark  by  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  (1804-1864),  read  by  Katy  Preston  -  00:38:08 
  3. The  Dilettante  by  Edith  Wharton  (1862-1937),  read  by  William  Coon  -  00:24:29 
  4. The  Empty  House  by  Algernon  Blackwood  (1869-1951),  read  by  Efkan  Efe  -  00:39:35 
  5. Eveline  by  James  Joyce  (1882-1941),  read  by  William  Coon  -  00:11:38 
  6. The  Fulness  of  Life  by  Edith  Wharton  (1862-1937),  read  by  Nikolle  Doolin  -  00:27:51  
  7. The  Ghosts  by  Lord  Dunsany  (1878-1957),  read  by  William  Coon  -  00:11:55  
  8. The  Glamour  of  New  Orleans  by  Lafcadio  Hearn  (1850-1904),  read  by  Oscar  Goff- 00:05:04 
  9. The  Idyl  of  Red  Gulch  by  Bret  Harte  (1836-1902),  read  by  Curtis  Brown  -  00:24:35 
  10. Legend  of  the  Bleeding-heart  by  Annie  Fellows  Johnston  (1863-1931),  read  by  Betsie  Bush -00:15:54  
  11. Long  Distance  by  Edna  Ferber  (1885-1968),  read  by  Eva  -  00:14:14
  12. The  Lost  Sanjak  by  Saki  (H.  H.  Munro)  (1870-1916),  read  by  David  Barnes  -  00:17:32 
  13. The  Masgue  of  Red  Death  by  Edgar  Allan  Poe  (1809-1849),  read  by  Juan  Carlos  Bagnell  -  00:16:00 
  14. The  Mass  of  Shadows  by  Anatole  France  (1844-1924),  read  by  Peter  Yearsley  -  00:16:09 
  15. An  Occurrence  at  Owl  Creek  Bridge  by  Ambrose  Bierce  (1842-1914?),  read  by  Matthew  Stewart Fulton - 00:22:01  
  16. The  Quicksand  by  Edith  Wharton  (1862-1937),  read  by  William  Coon  -  00:42:30  
  17. The  War  Prayer  by  Mark  Twain  (1835-1910),  read  by  Scott  Henkel  -  00:09:17 
  18. What  Was  It?  by  Fitz-James  O'Brien  (1828-1862),  read  by  Peter  Yearsley  -  00:35:13 
  19. The  Woman  Who  Tried  to  be  Good  by  Fitz-James  O'Brien  (1828-1862),  read  by  Eva  -  00:29:40 
  20. The  Yellow  Wallpaper  by  Charlotte  Perkins  Gilman  (1860-1935),  read  by Justine  Young  -  00:28:18



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