{"id":308771,"date":"2025-11-21T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/to-cut-a-story-short-minnies-pages\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:36:02","slug":"to-cut-a-story-short-minnies-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=308771","title":{"rendered":"To cut a story short\u2026 \u2013 Minnie&#8217;s Page(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Is the short story the answer to our shorter attention-spans?<\/p>\n<p>I recently attended a very interesting talk at the Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature on the topic of Short Stories. Cleverly titled The Gravity of Brevity, the three speakers had a lively discussion about how the short story was making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/img_8743\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_8743\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=825\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=825\" alt=\"img_8743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=150&amp;h=113 150w, https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225 300w, https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=768&amp;h=576 768w, https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=768 1024w, https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_8743.jpg?w=1440&amp;h=1080 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some golden nuggets from that discussion:<\/p>\n<p>*a short story leaves a punch<\/p>\n<p>*short stories are for introspection<\/p>\n<p>* a short story has its own physics, its own trajectory<\/p>\n<p>* a short story has to be true to the reality the writer has created, and (my favorite)<\/p>\n<p>*In the social media age, the short story is the golden medium.<\/p>\n<p>For writers, a short story takes just as much out of a writer as writing a full-length novel. Within that limited space, every single word, every sentence, every comma and colon is important.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all this, I wonder then why it is so hard to get publishers interested in short story collections?<\/p>\n<p>Readers, writers, I\u2019d love to hear your view of the short story.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Minnie<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t<img referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" alt=\"Unknown's avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=90&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=90&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=135&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1.5x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=180&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 2x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=270&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 3x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2a9029689d6c92dcbcb5be7b39581efc2cd981dfb39784ede01a6c99bc870723?s=360&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 4x\" class=\"avatar avatar-90\" height=\"90\" width=\"90\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"author-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\tPublished by <span class=\"author-name\">Padmini Sankar<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-heading --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\t\tAuthor of two published books, The Mother of all Parties ( HarperCollinsIn) and Zara and the Bumbling Genie(On Books International). Short stories published in Arabian Noir CWA anthology and Dorothy Dunnett HWA anthology.\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minniespages.wordpress.com\/author\/padminisankar\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tView all posts by Padmini Sankar\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the short story the answer to our shorter attention-spans? I recently attended a very interesting talk at the Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature on the topic of Short Stories. Cleverly titled The Gravity of Brevity, the three speakers had a lively discussion about how the short story was making a comeback. 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