Description
Book SynopsisWith elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises,
The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical exploration of compact storytelling, guiding readers to heighten their awareness of not only what appears on the page but also what doesn’t.
Table of ContentsForeword
Megan Giddings
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Going Long. Going Short.
Chapter 1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction
Chapter 2. The Freedom of Constraints
Chapter 3. Telling a Story in Fragments
Chapter 4. The Erotics of Brevity
Chapter 5. Context: How Much Is Enough?
Chapter 6. The Fullness of Omission
Chapter 7. White Spaces
Chapter 8. Plotting in Miniature (and with a Slant)
Chapter 9. Writing Characters in Fleeting Profile
Chapter 10. Writing for the Essence
Chapter 11. The Sounds of Silence
Chapter 12. Found Objects, Found Stories
Chapter 13. Story as Collage
Chapter 14. Going Small to Go Big: The Art of Expansion
Chapter 15. Going Small to Go Small
Chapter 16. The Poetics of Brevity
Chapter 17. Is It Poetry or Prose?
Chapter 18. How Short Can You Go?
Chapter 19. The Mot Juste
Chapter 20. The Sentence
Chapter 21. The Paragraph
Chapter 22. The Title
Chapter 23. The "Flash Novel" and the Novella
Chapter 24. Endings
Postscript
One More Postscript
Flashings: Quotes on Writing Short
Appendix. Gleanings from
The Art of Brevity
