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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2004.12.10

Today I discovered something that I'd been half expecting for some time, now. It was a short story that I'd been working on a year ago. One I think that's worth entering into a short story competition. So I'm going to try.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov