Minimalism
“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”—Harold Ross (1892-1951), founding editor of The New Yorker.
Editor’s Note: Mad Libs?PeezPix: Fall Walk—Over the shoulder of the Wellsville in the last of the autumn sun.
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I think we writer folk refer to that as outlining...
ReplyDelete—Bud
Why you _________, that's ___________ I've ever _____________.
ReplyDelete—Jim S.
Someones criticism of a book (I'm sorry I can't remember which or who's) said that it felt like they had ran the paper threw a shredder and then picked out words to make it into a book. It was that bad.
ReplyDeleteI personally can't write with fill in the blank ideas. Probably the reason why I've only ever done partially completed short stories.
Erica Abbott