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On writing short stories

Bailey, Tom

C. Michael Curtis

Frank Conroy

André Dubus

Joyce Carol Oates

Francine Prose

Robert Coles

Authorship Technique Short Story Writing

A book of essays on writing by writers.

Essay titles:

  • What makes a short story?
  • Reading as a Writer: The Artist as Craftsman
  • Character, Plot, Setting and Time, Metaphor and Voice
  • The Writer's Workshop
  • The Habit of Writing
  • Why Write? Taking on the World
  • Publishers and Publishing
The Cask of Amontillado
4.2 18 votes
The Technique of the Mystery Story
3.1 16 votes
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
4.1 30 votes
Steal like an artist
4.1 39 votes
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4.1 51 votes
On Writing
4.1 67 votes
A Room of One's Own
4.2 23 votes
The most dangerous game
3.8 18 votes
The Fall of the House of Usher
4.2 16 votes
I, Robot
4.2 153 votes
Trigger Warning
4.0 15 votes
The Tell-Tale Heart
4.3 38 votes
Just After Sunset
4.1 36 votes
The Masque of the Red Death
4.2 16 votes
A Study in Scarlet
3.9 82 votes
Tenth of December
4.1 17 votes
No longer human
4.0 87 votes
Labyrinths
4.1 41 votes
Who Moved My Cheese?
3.8 54 votes
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
3.5 27 votes
Who Moved My Cheese?
3.9 73 votes
Bartleby, the Scrivener
4.0 26 votes
The Lost World
3.9 33 votes
Everything's Eventual
3.8 22 votes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4.2 155 votes
Stories of Your Life and Others
4.4 75 votes
Through the Looking-Glass
3.9 45 votes
The ones who walk away from Omelas
4.3 34 votes
On Writing Well
3.8 18 votes
Nightfall
4.1 23 votes
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
3.9 16 votes
Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, and other stories
4.3 27 votes
The Chronicles of Narnia
4.2 66 votes
The Lottery
3.7 23 votes
The Gruffalo
4.3 60 votes
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
3.9 19 votes
Arcanum Unbounded
4.7 16 votes
Frog and Toad Together
4.1 31 votes
Count Zero
4.0 52 votes
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
4.3 47 votes
The Martian Chronicles
4.1 97 votes
Romeo and Juliet
3.6 163 votes
Misery
4.1 104 votes
Red Dragon
4.2 30 votes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4.0 43 votes
The Hunger Games
4.1 401 votes
Narziss und Goldmund
4.0 17 votes
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
4.7 67 votes