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What’s the Difference Between Novels, Short Stories and Poems?
It is readers who truly make the difference between novels and short stories. Because, beyond the analogies, there is the decisiveness of audience.
Short stories are different from novels in this way: short stories have better readers.
Or...
Accidental AI Chat from 1996?
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
That was the Guardian headline yesterday. Fairly self-explan. And this was the paragraph that really got me:
Asked by the Guardian to review some of the...
What’s the Difference Between Novels, Short Stories and Poems?
I have thought of funny analogies, plenty of them, to make the distinction – when I’m asked The Question.
What’s the difference between...?
If the novel is a whole cake, the short story is a biscuit, and the poem is a sweet.
If the...
Unexpurgated Interview with JG Ballard
‘Might it be that Ballard, in fact, had a more nuanced view than many of us on the topic of what is plausible and what is not?’
Last week, The Quietus posted an article by Louis Pattison.
The title is ‘The Suburbs Dream of Violence: J.G....
How Many Words Does a Novel or Novella or Short Story Have to Be?
Hello,
this is a call for help.
I’m going to say something very basic about wordcounts in On Drafting.
Here’s what I’m got so far.
I am wondering whether you’d agree with these figures, and if not, why not?
I am often asked about wor...
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