SHORT STORY ANECDOTE
If short story writers would analyze the structure of an effectively told anecdote, they would clearly understand the traditional story form. Read anecdotes in as many articles as you can, and you will see that they are basically little stories used to emphasize the theme of the piece you are reading.
It is an idea that has become a story developed through a plot line. There is narrative, foreshadowing, dialogue, motivation characterization, description, suspense, crisis, and a conclusive end.
Inside a lean anecdote is a fat story ready to be written.
Quote (Author Unknown): There are no "one-novel" writers. There are only novelists who have stopped writing.
It is an idea that has become a story developed through a plot line. There is narrative, foreshadowing, dialogue, motivation characterization, description, suspense, crisis, and a conclusive end.
Inside a lean anecdote is a fat story ready to be written.
Quote (Author Unknown): There are no "one-novel" writers. There are only novelists who have stopped writing.
Labels: anecdotes, novelists, short story, Writing
posted by Barb | 9:19 AM
1 Comments:
Never thought about anecdotes this way, but you're right. Great idea.
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