Hemingway’s imitation: Hemingway had a narrative technique called the iceberg theory. This simple writing style reveals minimal detail on the surface, with deeper meaning hiding below. Since there are more dialogues than actions in his stories, he doesn’t describe the mood of the scene and lets the audience guess who is speaking and their tone…
Category: My Short Stories
IMAGE TO IMAGINATION
In a creative writing class I attended, the students were asked to pick an image randomly from a stack full of pictures of strangers. Our task was to imagine a story with that character as the protagonist. I received the portrait of an elderly woman. Something like this picture: My story: Violet looked at her…