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How To Write
 | In 1886, Anton Checkhov wrote a letter to his brother Alexander in which he stated a list of conditions prose must fulfill to be considered art by him. They were:- no long eruptions of words of a social, political or economical nature
- uninterrupted objectivity
- realistic description of persons and things
- dual succinctness (both in size and in formulation)
- daring and originality
- honesty
I wonder how much prose is being produced by fiction-writing hopefuls that fulfills all of these requirements. And I shudder to think how much writing out there fulfills none of these requirements. |
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