A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
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The worst advice? ‘Don’t listen to the critics.’ I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they’re telling you something is broken that you can fix.
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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.
Goodreads.com. (2019). Stephen King Quotes (Author of The Shining). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King [Accessed 21 Sep. 2019].
