How writing very short stories can improve all your writing (with Grant Faulkner)

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Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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916. Grant Faulkner, author of "The Art of Brevity" and executive director of NaNoWriMo talks with us about how writing very short stories can improve all your writing.

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0:00.0	I'm in Young Fogarty and today we have a special guest for the Grammar Girl podcast.
0:11.2	We have Grant Faulkner, the executive director of National Novel Writing Month and the
0:15.8	co-founder of 100 Word Story.
0:19.1	He recently published the Art of Brevity, crafting the very short story.
0:23.8	He's also published Fisters, a collection of 100 Word Stories, the short story collection,
0:29.1	all the comforts sin can provide.
0:32.9	Nothing short of selected tales from 100 Word Story, pep talks for writers, 52 insights
0:39.1	and actions to boost your creative mojo.
0:42.4	And he is here today to talk with us about the Art of Brevity, his newest book, Welcome
0:47.8	Grant.
0:48.8	Thank you so much, Minion.
0:49.8	It's a treat to be here with you.
0:52.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:53.0	Where is my copy?
0:54.0	Oh, here it is.
0:55.0	Here it is.
0:56.0	You have the art there.
0:57.0	I like that.
0:58.0	It's the art of the art of Brevity, sort of mirror images there.
1:01.5	How fun.
1:02.5	Well, it's a wonderful little book.
1:05.3	Not surprisingly, I love that the chapters are all really short and the book is about
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