1 day ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. “Telling writers how to fake,” she said, “is like teaching children how to steal. You should be ashamed of yourself.” I should indeed be ashamed of myself, and I often am, but not this time. For fakery is the heart and soul of fiction. All our novels and short storie ...

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2 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. There was once a school of thought in the theater that maintained that scenery should be as detailed as possible, even down to details which could never possibly be apparent to the audience. If there was a desk on stage, for example, there ought to be papers and penc ...

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3 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. Afterward, though, when you reread what you’ve done, you might want to see whether your modifiers , your descriptive words, do the job you’ve given them. should they be more or less specific? Should they me more descriptive? More judgmental? Are you trying to control ...

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4 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. If you’re interested in watching a master put not only verbs but all the other parts of speech through their paces, you might make the acquaintance of Pelham Greenville Wodehouse. p. 205 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence B ...

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5 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. There is no more important component of fiction than dialogue. The words your characters speak to one another do more to convey their nuances to the reader than any words you can employ yourself to sketch them. Dialogue advances and defines plot, renders complicated ...

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6 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. We cannot control how the reader will receive our fictional message, nor should we be able as writers to assert such control. The best we can do, I believe, is write carefully and as honestly as we can and let the reader make of our work what he will. If we [...]

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6 days ago by Nathaniel Tapley

When I first sat down over the summer to start doing some serious work on In The Gloaming I didn’t know what a chapbook was. I had never heard of Michael Marshall Smith. I thought horror was all shiny, fat, black books with skulls on the front, wedged into the pockets of teenagers’ school blazers. I ...

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7 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. The best surprise endings don’t merely surprise the reader. In addition they force him to reevaluate everything that has preceded them, so that he views the actions and the characters in a different light. p. 188 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fic ...

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8 days ago by Aiko

Now available for a bargainous £2 is the ninth in a series of chapbooks printed by Forest Publications: a collection of short stories entitled, Vignettes from Below by Julia Boll. Here’s an excerpt: “When the fires broke out, I was so high on endorphins I didn’t even notice the overwhelming stench o ...

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8 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. On the other hand, there’s a special treat for the reader when the writer does try for verisimilitude. When I can read a book and believe (in the sense of that voluntary suspension of disbelief essential for success of fiction) that I’m reading real letters or a real ...

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