Attention: All Writers
Vestal Review is looking for submissions to publish in an anthology of stories called, "Short on Sugar, High on Honey. Bittersweet Love Stories?". Stories must be between seven and thirteen words. There is no limit to the amount of submissions. For more information, click here.
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How you doin' Lennox?
I'm doing pretty good. Tired. Struggling with the first sentence of a story. You?
Yeah, not much room with 8-12 words. It'll be interesting to see what is sent in and selected for publication.
On the bigger scale, I am disappointed to see this movement toward considering a few words a story. I admit that I am at an age where I should fear being tossed into the "can't teach old dogs new tricks" category, but will risk making the statement anyway. While I appreciate the time and thought the author might (should) put into a few-word project, and the benefit that process lends to writing, on the reading side I think it further promotes our society's propensity for instant gratification.
Already, people are reading less. I see Gather members state that they "can't" read more than a few paragraphs here, but they jump right to another publication and read a few more paragraphs, and another . . . and I wonder if it isn't really voluntary attention deficit.
I think every line we write should be tight and tell a story, and that most of us should string a bunch of those tight lines together until we develop a complete story.
I had some fun with 75-word stories the other day, for another place, but I'm not sure I can even approach this one.
I've been one of Charles Lennox's biggest fans since the day I met him, and enjoy reading anything he writes. If he recommends this publication and the others take tight-writing to the art form he does, I am sure I will enjoy reading them too.