tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post5327992721316263081..comments2024-03-06T10:39:37.128+00:00Comments on Tania Writes: Celebrating the short storyTania Hershmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-30597315284353356202011-07-20T12:07:11.525+01:002011-07-20T12:07:11.525+01:00Speaking as someone who made the longlist but not ...Speaking as someone who made the longlist but not the shortlist of the Bristol Prize, I would have loved to go but am glad everyone enjoyed themselves.<br /><br />I have my own thoughts on the reduction of short stories on the BBC and am going to collect them together before I write a blog entry. I am broadly in support of their retention though and question the motives for cutting them.Susanhttp://www.joyofwriting.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-71363000489403305162011-07-20T11:45:15.940+01:002011-07-20T11:45:15.940+01:00Patricia, so lovely to meet someone who isn't ...Patricia, so lovely to meet someone who isn't embarassed to admit to the short story dance! and thank you for drawing attention to the fantastic things going on on your website, I haven't had a chance to read the conversations in any depth yet, it's on my "Exciting Things to Do" list!<br /><br />V - thanks, let's keep our fingers crossed and keep celebrating!<br /><br />N - good luck with the StIP (love it!) Or even: SIP, seems to be appropriate somehow.<br /><br />Alison, it is true, isn't it, that if you like short stories you probably love them, but perhaps also because of the odd attitude towards them from outside, we are even more enflamed... Lovely summing-up of what the short story is, that's beautiful.Tania Hershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-29112476153097815082011-07-20T11:38:08.951+01:002011-07-20T11:38:08.951+01:00Thanks for this post. This Radio 4 campaign has re...Thanks for this post. This Radio 4 campaign has really showed how we writers feel about short stories. I've been thinking in the last few days why is it that writers of short stories are so passionate about them and have gathered this way to defend and promote the story. I know that of all the types of writing I do it's short stories that I get fired up most about.<br /><br />The short story is life, put essentially. It can encapsulate truths about being human in just a few sentences and it has it's place more than ever in modern society. To write them is thrilling, to start with a wraith of an idea and develop it but then later to edit it back down to it's raw elements. I wish the campaign for more Radio 4 stories success but I'm also optimistic that readers and listeners will value and look for the short story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-36656780479641023802011-07-20T11:12:59.056+01:002011-07-20T11:12:59.056+01:00Signed!
Thanks for the report. I would LOVED to h...Signed!<br /><br />Thanks for the report. I would LOVED to have been there.<br /><br />Now, back to my STIP (story in progress).<br />N xGroup 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-14554663497219979642011-07-19T19:59:20.845+01:002011-07-19T19:59:20.845+01:00Thank you for celebrating the short story, T. It i...Thank you for celebrating the short story, T. It is so important. I share everyone's dismay at the BBC's decisions - even though they've never accepted one of mine. I feel sad - I've lost a goal - I was hoping, maybe one day!<br /><br />But also, as we were saying over the weekend (or I was anyway) - I would not have written a novel unless it was an extension of my real love of short fiction. So I am grateful to the short story, too.Vanessa Gebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09088301040602803489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-21358727998197075782011-07-19T15:34:09.381+01:002011-07-19T15:34:09.381+01:00Thanks for the recap, Tania. I am with you; the li...Thanks for the recap, Tania. I am with you; the little short story dance at the end of an exceptional short story is part of the satisfying ending for me. You may already be aware of this, but Vanessa Gebbie and Gerard Woodward (along with three American writers) participated in "Why the Short Story? A conversation among writers," over on my site: PatriciaAnnMcNair.com. You are fighting the good fight for the story; thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com