HeyJaredThe Burning Boy
Writing as a way of giving experience enough air to survive.
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A Novel Is a Life. A Story Is the Hinge It Turns On. (opens the original)
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Only Gays in the Building (opens the original)
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The Short Story: A Craft Course (opens the original)
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I’m teaching Story Lab, a six-week online craft course in the short story, this fall with Downtown Writers Workshop.We’ll work on character, desire, plot, point of view, setting, dialogue, pacing, voice, and the strange little miracle of making a short story actually hold together.I’ve been teaching the short story for nearly thirty years, and I still think it’s one of the hardest forms to get right.Come write one with me.And then you too can get a personal rejection from The New Yorker, like I
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