HeadlessHavoc t1_iy04bgn wrote on November 27, 2022 at 7:12 PM Reply to What makes Raymond Carver so good in just two pages? by Valuable-Elevator511 Good writing can't be explained. Or at least, explaining it doesn't do the text justice. A 5,000 word short story is a 5,000 word name, for an emotion that had no name before the story was written. Permalink 1
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Reply to What makes Raymond Carver so good in just two pages? by Valuable-Elevator511
Good writing can't be explained. Or at least, explaining it doesn't do the text justice.
A 5,000 word short story is a 5,000 word name, for an emotion that had no name before the story was written.