Showing posts with label Kurt Vonnegut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kurt Vonnegut. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20

Kurt Vonnegut on short stories

Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer, author of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) among other works.


This short video has some of his best advice on writing short stories, including some odd ones, such as: "Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible."


I really like "every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action."  More surprising are: "start as close to the end as possible," and "write to please just one person."