Conscious Short-Story Technique
by David Raffelock
MOST persons, aiming to develop what they regard as their talent for writing, eagerly scan every book or course on the subject of fiction-writing that they can find; or, if blessed with a friend who is selling his output, they go to him for advice. It is only natural that one should wish to feel his way, in order to avoid wasting time and energy, by learning what others have done who have achieved success, so that he may perhaps do likewise. In creating fiction, as in life, the common impulse is to conform to customary modes. But if a writer possess originality must he still write according to generally followed methods ? Is confority an inexorable law in fiction-writing? It would seem so, for are not rapid action, suspense, plot and other devices regarded indispensable for the short-story, especially by most editors, instructors and successful fictionists? Yet another side presents itself; there are capable authors who will not conform to the established rules but whose stories are nevertheless highly rated by discriminating critics.
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