{"id":39,"date":"2005-02-24T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/archives\/39"},"modified":"2005-02-24T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T13:36:53","slug":"maybe-i-could-just-write-comments-instead-of-actual-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I Could Just Write Comments Instead of Actual Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\">I buy <em>Best American Short Stories<\/em> every year not only for the quality of the\u00c2\u00a0fiction but also for the section in the back which gives a brief biography of each author and then a short statement\u00c2\u00a0form him or her about the genesis of the story or\u00c2\u00a0the process of writing it. I have dozens of drafts and fragments in a general fiction notebook\u00c2\u00a0 as well as the two novels that I&#8217;ve been working on for at least fifteen years. Ryan Harty&#8217;s remark gives me pause:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"#000000\">It took a month or so to get through a draft and more than four years to come up with an ending I liked.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ryan Harty,\u00c2\u00a0on the process by which he wrote<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 first published in <em>Tin House<br \/>\n<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0included in <em>Best American Short Stories of 2003<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buy Best American Short Stories every year not only for the quality of the\u00c2\u00a0fiction but also for the section in the back which gives a brief biography of each author and then a short statement\u00c2\u00a0form him or her about the genesis of the story or\u00c2\u00a0the process of writing it. I have dozens of drafts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe I Could Just Write Comments Instead of Actual Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}