How to Write Short Stories with Samples
About this book
THIS 1924 COLLECTIBLE VOLUME, WRITTEN BY THE IRREPRESSIBLE RING LARDNER WHO, IN HIS PREFACE, MAKES THE FOLLOWING ". . .WHATEVER ELSE THIS COUNTRY MAY BE SHY OF, THERE IS CERTAINLY NO LACK OF CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS THAT LEARNS YOU THE ART OF SHORT-STORY WRITING. . . . HOWEVER, FR SOME REASON ANOTHER WHEN YOU SKIN THROUGH THE PAGES OF HIGH CLASS PERIODICALS, YOU DON'T VERY OFTEN FIND THEM CLUTTERED UP WITH STORIES THAT WAS WRITTEN BY BOYS OR GALS WHO HAD WIN THEIR PHI BETA SKELETON KEYS AT THIS OR THAT STORY-WRITING COLLEGE." (THE SPELLING IS LARDNER'S, NOT MINE.) SO, THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, YOU CAN IMAGINE THE TENOR OF THIS WORK AND MAY WANT TO DIG INTO IT IMMEDIATELY, WITH THE FEELING THAT HE'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY THAT WILL TEACH YOU MORE THAN YOU'VE LEARNED IN ANY WRITING CLASS.