Every assignment I've handed in has been done the night before. I'm working on a script AND an original piece for tomorrow (then it's all over!)...
I'm not so sure that you just described a plot, bluebell. You analysed it almost the same way my class did but I'm not sure that it evidenced...
It probably boils down to my belief that a short story doesn't have to have a plot to be successful.
A good example of a short story absent on plot would be The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen by Graham Greene. It's an excellent piece that is simply...
I suppose I just think they're a crutch and there is definitely a lust for melodrama in a lot of amateur writing. I'm talking really about...
I can't stand them! Those little one liners at the end of reams and reams of text that is somehow supposed to either shock or absorb the reader...
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