Replay: Grant Faulkner shares Five Things He's Learned about The Art of Brevity
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"Novelists are taught to strap together crisscrossing tentacles of story lines and fill the capacious spaces of a novel’s pages with layers of details—to write with a sense of expanding, of putting bulk on a story’s bones, but writers need to know how to construct a story with less just as much as they need to know how to build a story with more."
– Grant Faulkner, Five Things I’ve Learned about The Art of Brevity
Grant Faulkner is the celebrated author of the just-released The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story. He is also the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story.
Grant has published two previous books on writing: Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo, and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide. He’s also published a collection of 100-word stories, Fissures, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. He serves on the National Writing Project’s Writer’s Council, Lit Camp’s Advisory Council, and Aspen Words’ Creative Council. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Write-minded.
Grant’s Five Things He’s Learned about The Art of Brevity delves into why less can be more in your creative writing, and how you can profitably apply the principles and aesthetic of brevity to anything you write – from a short story to a novel that contains thousands and thousands of words.
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