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Name: Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular

Author: L. Rust Hills
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9780618082346
0618082344

This is one of the best writer's guides I've ever read about the structure of the short story. Some of Rust Hill's opinions on popular fiction get pretty elitist. But his advice on how to write a quality short story has given me a lot to think about. It's a very good book.One of my favorite passages is when he talks about how Joyce Carol Oates claims to have conquered writer's block. "She says writer's block is caused by some problem in the work that the mind can't consciously solve, and that the solution is to put the work aside for a bit until the subconscious solves the problem"(p. 194).