tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674510287177469473.post9008918748687308343..comments2023-06-06T08:13:43.101-07:00Comments on Vanessa Gebbie's news: Words from a Glass Bubble updateVanessa Gebbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833187671441310234noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674510287177469473.post-9828508395737161512007-11-20T12:09:00.000-08:002007-11-20T12:09:00.000-08:00Hi OsIt's exciting, to be writing at a time when t...Hi Os<BR/><BR/>It's exciting, to be writing at a time when things are so in flux.<BR/><BR/>The short story lends itself to the medium of the web far far better than does a novel. Even better, flash fiction, in which a whole story can be read on one screen.<BR/><BR/>Fish Publishing have a prize for one page stories... and the prize money is serious.<BR/><BR/>Things are moving, changing.<BR/><BR/>Tracey Chevalier, in her judge's report last Saturday talks about the writer being able to 'hide behind the paunch' of a novel'. The truth is, that for a good short to work, as we both know, every single word, every sentence, every comma has been carefully selected. And what is left out is as important as what's in there.<BR/><BR/>It's a challenge I will not give up without a fight! Whatever I end up doing, I will always write short fiction as a way of keeping the writing muscles tuned.Vanessa Gebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833187671441310234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674510287177469473.post-50759181228984584162007-11-20T11:31:00.000-08:002007-11-20T11:31:00.000-08:00The pendulum will swing the other way, and it's th...The pendulum will swing the other way, and it's the novel that will be passé and the story that is sexy. There is no less reading or writing in a collection of short stories than there is in a novel. When the printer comes to scatter the jumbled proofs there may be exactly the same number of pages. People have fallen into "group think" that they like to "get into" a novel. I like to "get into" a short story collection. So what? I like novels too, I'm not against any literary form. The very idea of being against any literary form is preposterous when held up to the light. Are there people who are against watercolour paintings? I suppose there are.Ossianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12095236313068093836noreply@blogger.com