Reveal, Advance, or Get Out of My Story

May 14, 2014 at 10:06 am · Filed under On Writing and tagged: Carol Ottley-Mitchell, Kurt Vonnegut, writing techniques

I recently wrote a short story and decided to submit it to a publication. I hired our own novelspaces co-ordinator, Liane, who did a brilliant line edit on it and I was about to submit it when I re-read the submission requirements.

Yikes! My story was pushing 5,000 words. I had to drop a third of it and quick. Read the rest of this entry »

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