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This is a word search puzzle post based on With Our Bellies Full and the Fire Dying by Debra H. Goldstein. Learn about the book while you play! […]
Some people think that a short story is merely an abbreviated novel or that a book is an extended short story. Both are true, but only in a limited sense in terms of their elements. As an author who writes both long and short, I’ve come to realize that although there is overlap, the two are vastly different. Short stories tend, because of word count, to need to be written more tightly. There are usually less characters and narrative. Although a book can have several high and low spots or accentuated beats, a short story usually narrows the high beats to two or three. Because of space limitations, short stories tend to ….
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