Comment from: Hinermad [Visitor]
Hinermad

Diana,

Maybe misery loves company? Or maybe authors don’t know how to write about happy? The tortured artist stereotype had to have come from somewhere.

This reminds me of a line Lois McMaster Bujold (fantasy and SF author) has used in interviews and “meet the author” discussions at conventions:

“…when I think about the reader at all. I prefer to imagine Ms. Average Reader as a 40-year-old children’s cancer hospice nurse just home from a bad day at work. She doesn’t need me (or any other wittering writer) to teach her all about the human condition. She needs someone to hand her a drink.”

Dave

08/09/14 @ 12:06
Comment from: diana [Member]

I like her already.

d

08/09/14 @ 15:16
Comment from: Aunt Bann [Visitor]
Aunt Bann

Well, I’ve written a few short stories, but most of them have a good ending. But that may just mean they aren’t good, period!

08/09/14 @ 21:53
Comment from: Jam [Visitor]
Jam

I just wrote a 650 word short story for an event that is not depressing! I can send it to you if you want. (it is a children’s story tho’ if that doesn’t count…?)

Next time I read (or write) a short story that is not melancholy/depressing I will remember this and pass it on to you… I can’t personally remember any right now but I read a LOT of short stories (not so much anymore but def. in the past) so they’re all kinda blurring together in my head right now…

08/11/14 @ 21:00


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