This, of course, was the writer’s rite of passage. In fact, they didn’t have a very high opinion of anything that could be called science fiction.Įditors regularly rejected my stories, returning them with the familiar, unsigned, printed rejection slips. They couldn’t help me much with the science fiction and fantasy I kept turning out. It didn’t help that my college writing teachers said only polite, lukewarm things about them. Or they were isolated incidents that could not stand alone. Or they were brief summaries of unwritten novels. They were fragments of longer works-of stalled, unfinished novels.
My earliest collections of pages weren’t stories at all. You come up with an idea, then ten, twenty, perhaps thirty pages later, you’ve got a finished story. Yet there is something seductive about writing short stories. Trying to do it has taught me much more about frustration and despair than I ever wanted to know. The truth is, I hate short story writing. The Evening and the Morning and the Night To order, visit or send a fax on school letterhead to 212.226.1411.
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