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What an early short-story textbook says a short-story is, versus a tale, sketch or novelette
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Sets out one introduction passage from a 1918 book on the short-story form, for writers and screenwriters thinking about story structure. It covers the passage's conditions for a short-story and how it separates the form from the novelette, tale and sketch. These are the book's own claims, not tested, and the passage says they are not a measure of merit.
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What an early short-story textbook says a short-story is, versus a tale, sketch or novelette
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Sets out one introduction passage from a 1918 book on the short-story form, for writers and screenwriters thinking about story structure. It covers the passage's conditions for a short-story and how it separates the form from the novelette, tale and sketch. These are the book's own claims, not tested, and the passage says they are not a measure of merit.
Useful starting points
- The passage says a plot does not need to be complex; some of the best short-stories rest on a very slender complication.
- The passage says its points are technical and historical, and that a story can fall short of them and still have charm.
- The passage calls an outline of a much longer story a poor stand-in for a true short-story.
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