Short stories
are exactly that - short stories! They focus on the "destination" as
opposed to the "journey". There hasn't been a sentence
written that could not have been said in less words, a thought
or idea expressed just as clearly and succinctly in less time.
Some of my favourite stories have been no more than a page or
two. My early mentor, Linda Hutsell-Manning, would have me write
a thousand words, then condense them to eight hundred - then
five hundred... try it sometime. |