Stories

Writers can learn a lot about writing stories by listening to jokes. A good joke well told has all the elements of a good short story. The writer, or teller, introduces the main characters and usually provides information about what kind of people they are with the fewest words possible and then sets up a …

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Welcome!

I’m starting this new blog to be able to post things that might not be appropriate for my other blog, “South Sound Arts Etc.” http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/ So what am I going to post here? I don’t know. Mostly thoughts about the art of writing, my own and other people’s. Maybe excerpts from works in progress. Maybe …

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