Dear Brian -- Thank you for reading and for being here! You're so good at reflecting and introspecting on your work, where it comes from and how you constructed it. But I'm just beginning to learn that skill. What writing these stories has taught me (so far) is that I can cut back a lot more than I've given myself permission for. That's not new to most seasoned writers but I've just begun to appreciate its true meaning for myself... Each of these stories starts at 4X or 5X before I hack it down to a 100 words. I kill a lot of darlings on the way, as they say. I'll reflect on it some more... Thank you!
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Thanks Michele.
Love it…how does writing these 100 word stories, with their specificity and brevity, inform your poetry and other essay writing?
Dear Brian -- Thank you for reading and for being here! You're so good at reflecting and introspecting on your work, where it comes from and how you constructed it. But I'm just beginning to learn that skill. What writing these stories has taught me (so far) is that I can cut back a lot more than I've given myself permission for. That's not new to most seasoned writers but I've just begun to appreciate its true meaning for myself... Each of these stories starts at 4X or 5X before I hack it down to a 100 words. I kill a lot of darlings on the way, as they say. I'll reflect on it some more... Thank you!