Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Scribes Valley Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-10: 0970523009
Type: Fiction
Pages: 133
Copyright: Nov 4 2002
Anthology of 20 award-winning short stories. Stories that inspire, amuse, and entertain.
Twenty short stories that span the bridge between the real world and the world of imagination. Stories that inspire, entertain, and provoke thought.
Excerpt
THE PERFECT STORY. Now there’s something you’ll probably never see. It ranks right up there with the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman, and a politician with a conscience. But that doesn’t stop us writers from trying to create one. Every time we sit in front of a word processor, our heads bursting with ideas that will get us worldwide recognition, something happens and the ideas die almost before they’re born. It’s a struggle, plain and simple. The cause of sleepless nights and countless headaches. Still we trudge on toward the battle.
--From "Writing the Perfect Story" a foreword by the editor (David L. Repsher) in STORIED CROSSINGS.
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