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Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Short Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things–reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them–in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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“If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
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This is my solar system. It’s made with rubber bands. Pluto was a planet growing up, so it gets to be in there. Charon is along for the ride too. This is my solar system and I stand by my choices.
-Daniel Luke
Always reblog Twilight Zone gifs.
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“I killed him for money - and for a woman - and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?”
Double Indemnity, (1944)
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‘Please don’t break my heart’ by Sandy Smith, August 2007.
