Chapter 116 I like short and concise works——a letter about "One Minute Fiction"

After reading "One Minute Fiction" sent by the editor of the Evening News, it is really worthy of being a masterpiece selected from more than 30,000 articles, and each article is good.I have decided to publish the first three articles, and a few others are also very good. I have always thought that short stories should be short, because they are short, the layout must be concise, and the text must be concise.When we were young, we regarded Daudet’s, Maupassant’s “The Necklace” and Lu Xun’s as models. Later, for some unknown reason, the short stories became longer and longer, so long that it takes a whole time for people to dare to read them.I have a bad spirit after being ill, especially this feeling.Generally speaking, I like to read short and concise works, and I also hope that young people can write more short and good novels.Of course, it is even more difficult to write short things. A world can be seen in a grain of sand, and it takes some work of tailoring and screening.

This is just a family opinion, maybe because I can't write long articles to "protect my shortcomings", please laugh it off.August 5, 1982