I received the current issue of AWP's magazine, The Writer's Chronicle, this weekend at the Independent Small Press Conference and ran across a great article, "How to Write like Alice Munro" by Canadian writer, Kim Aubrey.
The article is seven pages long and chocked full of works cited. I love that. So you will have to pick up a copy to read the article in full detail. But since this my short story writing season, I thought I would a snippet of one point of this article to the blog for a craft exercise--Munro's thoughts on short story creation.
Who is Munro? And why should I care? Click here.
Munro believes that you should tackle a short story(particularly character development) like a novel. "I can't see them just as now, packed into the stress of the moment."
Aubrey buttresses her finding with an interview Munro had with Deborah Treisman of the New Yorker(Telling Stories.) Munro states. "I always think it[her short story] is a novel." You can hear the full interview here.
Craft exercise for the week: Do you have a WIP sleeping under your bed? Take it out and condense it into a long short story. Then email it to me and we will talk about it. I will post mine on the blog sometime this month. Remind me.
Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee
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