I thought we could go all writerly for this week's Thought for the Weekend - and who better than Frank O'Connor to set us on the right path!
'There are three necessary elements in a story—exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as “John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X”; development as “One day Mrs. Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man”; and drama as “You will do nothing of the kind,” he said.'
- FRANK O’CONNOR -
To the point indeed! It must be something in the air as I posted a short piece about writing short stories this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend Mrs Socks.
Isabel x
Reminds me of a T-shirt I once saw sporting a quote by Henry David Thoreau:
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Only someone did Thoreau one better by crossing out one of the "simplifies."
Yeap Isabel, it is a good one - Frank O Connor was a master of the short story genre.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, sounds good Stephen - eating up words is one of the best ways of improving your writing.
Have a lovely weekend both of you:)
Oh, if only I could get my own writing to be this concise and to the point! :)
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