Literary Flight Simulators
"The Novel" is still the "Night Carrier Landing" for TOP GUN Literary Power Players. But for how much longer?
Short stories = flight simulators for novelists.
My theory is that the eBook format favors SHORT rather than LONG.
"The Internet" with its repetitive pervasive "Blog Posts" is a SHOUT in the direction of Shorter; Twitter is a W.T.F. also pressuring every coherent message in the direction of compact meme.
If Ayn Rand were starting today, circa 2013, Wednesday, March 06, 2013, (Sorry, I'm not brave enough to complete this thought imagining a severely truncated Ayn.)
While there is no substitute for reading a thousand novels and actually writing a few novels to comprehend the form; the short story is a kind of miniature writing exercise that has done me more measurable benefits than classes, degrees, conferences (admittedly, without any of the networking and connections and promotional opportunities).
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Short stories = flight simulators for novelists.
My theory is that the eBook format favors SHORT rather than LONG.
"The Internet" with its repetitive pervasive "Blog Posts" is a SHOUT in the direction of Shorter; Twitter is a W.T.F. also pressuring every coherent message in the direction of compact meme.
While there is no substitute for reading a thousand novels and actually writing a few novels to comprehend the form; the short story is a kind of miniature writing exercise that has done me more measurable benefits than classes, degrees, conferences (admittedly, without any of the networking and connections and promotional opportunities).
@hg47
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