Term Papers on Mastering The Short Story

Term Paper Title	Mastering The Short Story
# of Words	392
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.57

Mastering The Short Story

     Although I perceive Paul Darcy Boles to be an uppity, egotistic, and
somewhat euphorically rambling old man from his style of writing, there is some
beneficial information for someone wishing to create a commercially viable short
story. However, I feel that creating a story with the goal of marketability is a
grave mistake that ruins countless numbers of otherwise perfectly enjoyable
works of literature. It is no surprise that this style of writing is being
taught to the new generation, which promises to be far more creative than it's
predecessors.
     Boles' first advice is to follow Chekhov's observation: "The art of
writing is the art of abbreviation." A story of 3000 words or less has no need
for excessive 1 paragraph descriptions. "Today's reader" (whoever that is) has
no need for the descriptive style found in older works. So much for Alistair
MacLeod.
     A lot of importance is put on not stringing random sentences together.
Each sentence should be aimed towards a specific goal. The sum total of these
sentences is your story. Boles' views a sentence as a factor in a mathematical
equation. He also gets almost romantic about the sentence as a living, sentient
being. Once you shovel the po...

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