This was quite interesting. Personally, I think all writers should have to do slush pile reading as part of their writerly apprenticeships.
Thing about Chekov's Gun as a literary trope set in stone is that it seems to stand in direct opposition to Tom Wolf's "new journalism" sentiments on the use of status detail.
I think foreshadowing may be more important in a short story -- by definition compact -- than it is in a novel.
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Date: 2014-07-30 05:43 pm (UTC)Thing about Chekov's Gun as a literary trope set in stone is that it seems to stand in direct opposition to Tom Wolf's "new journalism" sentiments on the use of status detail.
I think foreshadowing may be more important in a short story -- by definition compact -- than it is in a novel.