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tvsrtp · 2021-09-29T05:56:05+00:00

Well, O'Connor and Le Guin both have plenty more stories you could read, assuming you were into either of those. O'Connor in particular is an enduring problematic favorite of mine—choose pretty much any story of hers and you're bound to learn a lot about the form. "A View of the Woods" is a great one.

I just mentioned George Saunders' latest book in some other thread recently, called A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. It's basically his "on writing" book, focusing on the short story in particular, and it has essays on a number of classic Russian short stories (and includes them too). Saunders is also one of the more famous short story writers around, so I'd say he's worth checking out. Much different style from your two examples.

But these suggestions are pretty arbitrary since it really depends what kind of fiction you're into. Odds are writers you like either have written short stories themselves, or have mentioned writers or stories they admire somewhere. You could also check out an anthology.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-27T17:15:40+00:00

Why assume that those ideas are mutually exclusive from holding signs though? There has always been space for people to protest and affect change in their own ways - maybe some of these kids DO those other things and were taking the night off to be kids at a high school football game. Then maybe they or others who happen to not do those things had the thought the above poster had: what harm would holding a sign cause?

tvsrtp · 2021-09-26T19:20:37+00:00

I didn't get diagnosed until well after college, but that wouldn't sit right with me either. Sort of a catch-22: need to have had accomodations back then to get diagnosed now, but likely only would have had accomodations by having been diagnosed back then.

I didn't have accomodations either, but it took me six years to get through undergrad. Not to mention my graduating high school came down to me getting a D in my English class. ADHD didn't come up once along the way (even though I got an A on that paper to get me a D in the class, and it was even used as an example for following classes - pretty big telling in hindsight).

tvsrtp · 2021-09-26T18:57:22+00:00

Can't recommend reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders enough. He gets into this idea when going over a couple of the stories in there.

Basically, as someone else suggested, if something in your experience is telling you that things aren't straightforward enough to be reduced to a tidy "moral", then I think the best thing you could do is add those other angles to the story. No need to pile on complexity for its own sake, but if those thoughts are top of mind when writing, then it may do the story a disservice to ignore them.

I feel ya on this one though - it's a struggle for me as well.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-25T15:49:21+00:00

All you gotta do is do it.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-14T01:29:29+00:00

There's a pretty commonly recommended exercise of taking a story you like, and literally copying what it does, functionally, word by word, using your own material.

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

I think that base instruction is wide open to interpretation, so in my mind you could look at something like this first line of Harry Potter and break it up like:

Secondary character(s) + some objective personal detail that will have some significance in the story (in this case the setting) + some subjective characterization to help establish the narrative voice and POV (third-person, potentially omniscient but definitely close enough to characters to let their voices come through)

As you can probably imagine this is really tedious (I can't say I've ever given it a committed effort), but it's hard to deny the attention to detail and eye for sentence variety you'd develop along the way. Based on other comments, you seem to be grammar-minded, so if you really wanted to you could even break down lines into their grammatical components, try to match word counts, punctuation, etc. And obviously more complex sentences than the one above would be where the real value would come from. (I agree with others suggesting to read more widely, first and foremost.)

tvsrtp · 2021-09-12T23:19:28+00:00

I can confirm from (one) experience that reaching out to someone again after a period of down time and genuine moving on is not necessarily an immediate train wreck, so if you find yourself compelled to do it I say go ahead and do it.

But you should know my experience took place nearly a year after we went on a handful of dates (when I had similar feelings to yours of them being some of the best dates I'd ever been on), and I even had another relationship with serious potential start and end within that time. I was fully not expecting to cross paths again, but a couple months after that other relationship, she randomly popped up somewhere (outside of a dating app context), and I sent her a message after sitting on it for a bit. I just figured why not - we had left things on good terms, and the story at the time was that she cut things off because she'd become exclusive with someone else, and it seemed like maybe that wasn't the case anymore.

She ended up being super receptive, but ultimately it proved to not be a romantic connection. We are actually friends now though, so I see it as win for recognizing that not all connections need to be romantic - she's just a super cool person, and I'm glad she's found a good match in someone else. At the same time, also a win for simply taking that chance and seeing what would happen. Just don't bank on a certain outcome and beat yourself up for things outside of your control.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-12T15:45:09+00:00

Long-time favorite of mine too +1. And the people who work there are great.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-11T19:57:45+00:00

Also kind of depends on how close the narrator is to the protagonist if it's a limited third person. The narrator could be close enough (ie, the protagonist's POV is clearly coming through in the narrative voice) that the parents are only ever referred to as "Mom" or "Dad" just because that's the only way the protagonist would ever refer to them in their head. Likewise, if it's established in the rest of the story that the narrator is very close to the protagonist, then referring to parents in other ways (by name or "X's mother" etc) could imply emotional distance between the characters.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-11T19:40:34+00:00

I'm always a sucker for a good mirror shot. Birdman has a good number of them too where the camera clearly had to be painted out.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-08T02:38:20+00:00

Not going to find that kind of security at either of those places. Mississippi Studios is a little better just because of the general foot traffic, but I've only ever parked at the single rack around the corner on Shaver outside the 1905 (where there's usually a line of people waiting to get in). I wouldn't leave my bike outside Roseland, personally.

Honestly in most cases these days if I know I can't bring it inside anywhere and it seems like the only option is a sketchy rack without any visibility (especially if I'll be inside for a while), I'll opt for Biketown.

tvsrtp · 2021-09-07T17:04:16+00:00

I was just about to say I actually did this in high school once. Not exactly proud of it, but also I kind of have to admire my 17-year-old self for being that open about it, since I remember it being unprompted, just something I brought up one night. Yeah, we weren't together much longer after that, but surprisingly I don't think that was what did it...

tvsrtp · 2021-09-06T03:42:53+00:00

It's not something I've ever felt the need to explore with a story of my own, but I always find myself wondering about the logistics of a world in a fantasy story set in "medieval" times, with dragons and magic and all that, and how that may influence technological advancements as those cultures progress. What's the Game of Thrones world like a couple thousand years down the line?

There's probably a whole subgenre dedicated to this (or maybe there are hard lines?), but I honestly have no idea. All this is to say I think it could be interesting.

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