I hope this author lives near an organic farm. The crops would never need for fertilizer again.
Seriously? Like, really? I thought this old saw went out in the '90's.
Let's call this what it is: horse hockey pucks.
What short story writing does is teach honing of prose. Steven Erikson was holding forth on the Tor reread of Mazalan boards about this topic, and I think he has some good points. But for storytelling purposes? Short stories and novels are different animals in the same class of beasties.
Here's the link http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/the-malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-gardens-of-the-moon-chapters-16-and-17#127676
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Date: 2010-09-09 05:31 am (UTC)I hope this author lives near an organic farm. The crops would never need for fertilizer again.
Seriously? Like, really? I thought this old saw went out in the '90's.
Let's call this what it is: horse hockey pucks.
What short story writing does is teach honing of prose. Steven Erikson was holding forth on the Tor reread of Mazalan boards about this topic, and I think he has some good points. But for storytelling purposes? Short stories and novels are different animals in the same class of beasties.
Here's the link http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/the-malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-gardens-of-the-moon-chapters-16-and-17#127676