Rachel - I was noticing that Pam is continuing to work on her short story - are we allowed to use our short short as the longer 12 page story? I was going to continue revising my short short anyways, but it would be awesome if I could expand on it.
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Flannery says:
"[T]here's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it..."
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1 comment:
You can definitely expand one of the short-shorts that you wrote into a full length story!
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