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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jan 15, 2016 5:50:35 GMT
I'm kicking off our Stevian Short Story Sessions by starting off a review thread. What you do is you read a short story (preferably one that is readily available to read), share it on Steve so everyone else can read it, then talk about what you think. Everyone else, discuss! Anyone can start one of these up. I just read the story Misery by Anton Chekhov. Man, this is precisely one of the types of stories I like. It's heartbreaking, yet a small bit is heartwarming (though others may not see it that way). The hard part is that the heartwarming bit is all the more heartbreaking. I wish I could write something as doomy as this. He makes a series of doomy little moments flow together seamlessly. He makes it look so easy! Thinking back, though, this is literally all it takes to write a story. Three bits that are almost-scenes, which have a common theme. What I noticed as I read was that I empathized with the main character even before I knew what I was empathizing about, it was explained in the second scene and intensified, wound down, and then resolved in the last bit. Basically, the structure was pretty much the simplistic five-bit arc that they teach you in school - inception, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. I like that even though it was simple, the very simplicity allowed the spaces between the words to tell more of the story than the actual words. Dang. Seriously, I wish I could write a story this melancholy without the scenes just looking like a pile of garbage.
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