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Vonnegut Advice: Short Stories

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Uploaded by on Jun 7, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut wrote some wonderful short stories. This was how he went about it.

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  • If that isn't nice I don't what it.

  • @musiciswine I always loved that quote. 

  • @PeterRoeder31 Having problems finding style advice on the internet, are we?

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  • many a great narrative has met an end at the gnawing maws of cockroaches. why even this very comment can be cut off b

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  • they were going to get insted of the chair mabey thed think twice before driving past the bus stop in an old van. By the way im a van guy and th4e cops cao look in my van any day eith or without probable cause. All us van giuy should agree to this and the cops should agree that its not really necessary to write us a 100 dollar ticket just cause they felt like checking out the vans. Some people are pretty prejudice agains van guys and homeless people that live in them.

  • as far as punishing someone who rapes and kills a chile opviosly they are mentally ill. But indeed some peoples mental illness is simply that they are evil and what greater mental illness is there thathn evil itself. A real punishment is solitary conmfinement. I see bricking up the door turning out the light and a drip nutrient tube. And just let them go nuts for 30 or 40 years. Now thats a punishment! if every on who killed a kid after raping them knew that was what

  • i also oppose the death penalty i out of seven people have on d3eth row have been proven innocent by dna evedindce . until that track record is drasticly improved that y have absolutly no right to imnpose a death penalty in any state. Now on to theory. It is nor a deterant. people who kill do not value life in that it means that they do not value themselves or being alive. So killing them is no deterant. Your not taking me alive mf il die before i go back top prison!! now prison is a deteran

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  • Style can be learned: that's a part of imitation. But at the same time, it's something only learned through imitation, trial, and error. If you want style advice, I'd suggest try meditating. If you want to learn how to construct a story where you can put your style to use, watch this vid.

  • Thank you for posting. Vonnegut is great.

  • @INFPownage Thank you!

  • @twashballur Congrats on getting published. :)

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