The Art of Brevity
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The Art of Brevity

Crafting the Very Short Story

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Art of Brevity

Crafting the Very Short Story

About this book

With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion.

With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical exploration of compact storytelling, guiding readers to heighten their awareness of not only what appears on the page but also what doesn’t.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: Going Long. Going Short.
  7. Chapter 1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction
  8. Chapter 2. The Freedom of Constraints
  9. Chapter 3. Telling a Story in Fragments
  10. Chapter 4. The Erotics of Brevity
  11. Chapter 5. Context: How Much Is Enough?
  12. Chapter 6. The Fullness of Omission
  13. Chapter 7. White Spaces
  14. Chapter 8. Plotting in Miniature (and with a Slant)
  15. Chapter 9. Writing Characters in Fleeting Profile
  16. Chapter 10. Writing for the Essence
  17. Chapter 11. The Sounds of Silence
  18. Chapter 12. Found Objects, Found Stories
  19. Chapter 13. Story as Collage
  20. Chapter 14. Going Small to Go Big: The Art of Expansion
  21. Chapter 15. Going Small to Go Small
  22. Chapter 16. The Poetics of Brevity
  23. Chapter 17. Is It Poetry or Prose?
  24. Chapter 18. How Short Can You Go?
  25. Chapter 19. The Mot Juste
  26. Chapter 20. The Sentence
  27. Chapter 21. The Paragraph
  28. Chapter 22. The Title
  29. Chapter 23. The “Flash Novel” and the Novella
  30. Chapter 24. Endings
  31. Acknowledgments
  32. Postscript
  33. One More Postscript
  34. Flashings: Quotes on Writing Short
  35. Appendix: Gleanings from The Art of Brevity