Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight

Author:Damon Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: short stories, creative writing, writing fiction, writing science fiction
Publisher: ReAnimus Press

The story forms we have been discussing are not rigid little boxes, into which every work of fiction must be crammed; they are ideal categories. In practice, elements of these forms are mixed in all kinds of ways. The same story may be partly one of resolution, partly of revelation, partly of solution, partly of illumination (see, for example, The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett). When you understand the simple forms, you can mix and combine them to make more sophisticated ones. There is no end to the stories that can be written, because the possible combinations of old forms will never be exhausted, and because good writers keep on inventing new forms.

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