In the modern world of texting, tweeting, memes and broadcasting sound bites the key to gaining anyone’s attention is keeping a message to 140 characters or less. Otherwise you risk losing your audience within 3-7 seconds. In a culture where a writers needs to capture the reader’s attention that quickly could be a pretty tall task however writers of short stories are definitely at more of an advantage. Brevity was their key to a successful work of fiction and grabbing their audience’s attention in the space of minutes has been what made them accomplished writers in this genre.
The short story genre has had its fair share of critics who believe that the shortness of the work is in fact it’s downfall as creditable literary form. The
The short story genre has had its fair share of critics who believe that the shortness of the work is in fact it’s downfall as creditable literary form. The