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Jan142008

If you craft it, they will read.

DateMonday, January 14, 2008 at 11:21AM

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I read somewhere that Don DeLillo described himself not as a writer of books or stories, but as a writer of sentences. He crafted them one by one, building towards the ultimate goal, which in the case of Underworld was damn near 900 pages. That's a lot of sentences. Writing short, micro or flash fiction is a good way to understand this attention to detail and the crafting of work sentence by sentence.

Kelly Spitzer is running a contest calling forth the best sentence - not a micro-micro story - just a beautifully crafted sentence. The prize is one of my favorite literary mags, Hobart.
Check out the entries at Kelly's blog.

If D.D. entered, he'd be a lock.

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