Tag: modern fiction

• 30 Stories, Day 26: Nicolas was…

  Alright. I admit it: after twenty-five days I was looking for a shortcut. (Note to self: use previous sentence as beginning of a short story.) I am talking, of course, about my thirty-day challenge to read one short story a day and write about it in long-term efforts to improve my own writing and get […]

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  Julie Israel

  26 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 short stories in 30 days, fiction, modern fiction, Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman is a genius, Nicolas was…, Smoke and Mirrors, writers, Writing

• 30 Stories, Day 21: Almost No Memory

  Today’s story in my 30 day reading challenge is modern. A bit of a veer from what I’ve been reading, but then , a diet is nothing if not well-balanced, I am reading to write better (with the long term aim of getting work published in lit mags), and modern lit mags do seem to […]

  Julie Israel

  21 January, 2013

  Books, Reading, short story, Writing

  Almost No Memory, fiction, Lydia Davis, modern fiction, writers, Writing