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1. The Picture of Oscar Wilde
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By: johnmanders, on 5/9/2014
Blog: John Manders' Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here is the third in a series of three images for the Pittsburgh Public Theater‘s season brochure—specifically for the world premiere of L’Hôtel, a new comedy by Ed Dixon. The cast is stars from the recent and distant past. I showed you Sarah Bernhardt. and Jim Morrison. Here now is Oscar Wilde.

By the way, this painting and the two others will be on display at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Alumni Show which opens this evening and continues through July 20th.

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2. WRITERS ON WRITING: Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)
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By: HAARLSON PHILLIPPS, on 2/5/2011
Blog: Clueless, ink. (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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   1.Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.


  2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.


  3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.


4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.


5. Start as close to the end as possible.


6. Be a sadist.  No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

 7. Write to please just one person.  If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

 8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible.  To heck with suspense.  Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.


The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964).  She broke practically every one of my rules but the first.  Great writers tend to do that.

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