short fiction appeals to me
7th July 2016 | for Creatives | short stories, writing, poetry, Major Jackson |
"I am too frequently undisciplined to imaginatively sustain a long work; my attention span is perfectly calibrated for writing poems. For that reason, short fiction appeals to me, especially if I can approach them in short lyric bursts."
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