CupofJoe
Myth Weaver
on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems
Link to OpenCulture article here...
Link to OpenCulture article here...
But I like Morbid...Though some of Poe’s discussion of technique relates specifically to poetry, as his own prose fiction testifies, these steps can equally apply to the art of the short story. And though he insists that depictions of Beauty and Death–or the melancholy beauty of death–mark the highest of literary aims, one could certainly adapt his formula to less obsessively morbid themes as well.