Over on his blog the great Lawrence Block is talking about short stories. He thinks that ebooks might be the salvation of the form. If you're interested in the short story I urge you to go ahead and read what he has to say. Block is, in my opinion, one of the greatest living writers and the very definition of what it means to be a professional. What he has to say is always worth hearing. I'll still be here when you get back. When I was starting out a quarter of a century ago, I wrote a lot of short stories, maybe 40 in about two years. There were a lot of reasons for this. Writing novels was intimidating. Writing short stories was much more manageable. Believe it or not, there was a time when I struggled to finish anything over 2000 … [Read more...]