Comments on: Dogged http://windupstories.com/2008/03/04/dogged/ fiction by paolo bacigalupi Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Hideously immense writing tips link-dump | Velcro City Tourist Board http://windupstories.com/2008/03/04/dogged/comment-page-1/#comment-65649 Hideously immense writing tips link-dump | Velcro City Tourist Board Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:44:10 +0000 http://windupstories.com/2008/03/04/dogged/#comment-65649 [...] today, what I really think is that I’m a dogged writer. If I polish the turd long enough, eventually something shines. It’s really my specialty. Going [...] [...] today, what I really think is that I’m a dogged writer. If I polish the turd long enough, eventually something shines. It’s really my specialty. Going [...]

]]> By: Anthony H. http://windupstories.com/2008/03/04/dogged/comment-page-1/#comment-63242 Anthony H. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:02:50 +0000 http://windupstories.com/2008/03/04/dogged/#comment-63242 I've always liked Gunn's way of doing things, with his philosophy of "sell everything twice." It seems that most of his novels started out as a series of short stories, on the same theme and progressing along a timeline, then combined with a few extra pieces of glue to make a novel. The most readily available example is "The Listeners" - published as three short stories in magazines, then combined into and published as a novel later. Anyway, as such an amazing short fiction writer, perhaps that sort of method is worth a go. I’ve always liked Gunn’s way of doing things, with his philosophy of “sell everything twice.”

It seems that most of his novels started out as a series of short stories, on the same theme and progressing along a timeline, then combined with a few extra pieces of glue to make a novel.

The most readily available example is “The Listeners” – published as three short stories in magazines, then combined into and published as a novel later.

Anyway, as such an amazing short fiction writer, perhaps that sort of method is worth a go.

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