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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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Collected Stories Of William Faulkner by William Faulkner

Collected Stories Of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
 

Collected Stories Of William Faulkner 

by William Faulkner

 

Contents   

I. THE COUNTRY  

Barn Burning 

Shingles for the Lord 

The Tall Men 

A Bear Hunt 

Two Soldiers 

Shall Not Perish  

II. THE VILLAGE  

A Rose for Emily 

Hair 

Centaur in Brass 

Dry September 

Death Drag 

Elly 

Uncle Willy 

Mule in the Yard 

That Will Be Fine 

That Evening Sun  

III. THE WILDERNESS 

Red Leaves 

A Justice

A Courtship 

Lo!   

IV. THE WASTELAND  

Ad Astra

Victory 

Crevasse 

Turnabout All the Dead Pilots  

 V. THE MIDDLE GROUND  

Wash 

Honor 

Dr. Martin 

Fox Hunt 

Pennsylvania Station 

Artist at Home 

The Brooch 

Grandmother Millard 

Golden Land 

There Was a Queen 

Mountain Victory

VI. BEYOND  

Beyond 

Black Music 

The Leg Mistral

 Divorce in Naples 

Carcassonne  

 I THE COUNTRY 

 Barn Burning 

Shingles for the Lord 

The Tall Men 

A Bear Hunt 

Two Soldiers 

Shall Not Perish


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William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. Wikipedia

 
Notable works: The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, A...
Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature (1949); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1955, 19...
Born: William Cuthbert Falkner; September 25, 1897; New Albany, Mississippi, U.S
Died: July 6, 1962 (aged 64); Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S
Short stories: A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, and more
Plays: Requiem for a Nun

 

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