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Michael Bush started the topic in the forum 7 years, 3 months ago
Steven’s advice in one of the last lessons was to read one level higher than your ambition. For the machine, his advice is to write short fiction. Well, I don’t read much short fiction, and I’m one of those people whose ambitions are through the roof. Whose short fiction should I be reading? Who is absolutely the best at the form?
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Michael Bush replied to the topic in the forum Michael Bush 7 years, 3 months ago
That said, I have started three short stories since the class began. I finished one. Another was a very hard sci-fi story where I got bogged down in science. I intend to spend the long weekend untangling some of that. The third I just… stopped. I should probably finish it.
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Michael Bush replied to the topic in the forum Michael Bush 7 years, 3 months ago
Steven, how sure are you that the short story market still exists in a form that’s useful for new writers? Because what I’ve heard isn’t encouraging- on the cruise, I got to have dinner with Lynn and Michael Thomas, the editors of Uncanny magazine, and I was regaled with stories of the thousands of submissions they get every month for the very few…[Read more]
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Michael Bush replied to the topic in the forum Michael Bush 7 years, 3 months ago
I’ve wanted to write for as long as I can remember. My earliest stories were what I suppose most people’s early stories are: retellings of stories I had read with new characters, new interpretations, new things. My mother approved of reading, but only of certain works. She was concerned that I might read “trash”, by which she meant anything that…[Read more]