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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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Weird Tales, Vol 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The Unique Magazine by Various, Complete Magazine

 

Contents for April, 1923

SIXTEEN THRILLING SHORT STORIES

TWO COMPLETE NOVELETTES

TWO TWO-PART STORIES

INTERESTING, ODD AND WEIRD HAPPENINGS


The Scar    Carl Rasmus    7
A Thrilling Novelette.   
Beyond the Door    Paul Suter    23
A Short Story of Gripping Interest.   
The Tortoise Shell Comb    Roylston Markham    34
A Fantasy of a Mad Brain.   
A Photographic Phantasm    Paul Crumpler    37
The Living Nightmare    Anton M. Oliver    38
A Night in a House of Death.   
The Incubus    Hamilton Craigie    42
A Frightful Adventure in an Ancient Tomb.   
The Bodymaster    Harold Ward    49
An Amazing Novelette.   
Jungle Death    Artemus Calloway    70
A Story in Which Crocodiles and Voodooism Play the Stellar Roles.   
The Snake Fiend    Farnsworth Wright    75
A Tale of Diabolic Terror.   
A Square of Canvas    Anthony M. Rud    81
A Story of an Insane Artist.   
The Affair of the Man in Scarlet    Julian Kilman    91
A Weird Story of the Thirteenth Century.   
The Hideous Face    Victor Johns    99
A Grim Tale of Frightful Revenge.   
The Forty Jars    Ray McGillivray    105
A Strange Story of the Orient.   
The Whispering Thing    Laurie McClintock and Culpeper Chunn    116
A Two-part Novel of Death and Terror.   
The Thing of a Thousand Shapes    Otis Adelbert Kline    139
The Concluding Chapters of a Weird Novel.   
The Conquering Will    Ted Olson    152
Do the Dead Return to Life?   
Six Feet of Willow    Carrol F. Michener    157
The Strange Tale of a Yellow Man and His Beloved Reptile.   
The Hall of the Dead    Francis D. Grierson    163
An Occult Story of Ancient Egypt.   
The Parlor Cemetery    C. E. Howard    169
A Grisly Satire.   
Golden Glow    Harry Irving Shumway    173
A “Haunted House” Story with a Touch of Humor.   
The Eyrie    By The Editor    179


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