Writing Style
Point of view method
Scenic in which the author comes on as almost not being there. He simply describes what happens. He gives nothing of the past, nor of any background, he is inside the mind of no character at all. He simply records dialogue and movement, depicts setting, makes no comment or intrusion. You can see it in absolutely pure form in the first hundred lines of Hemingway’s “The Killers.” - Excerpted from Writing in general and the short story in particular by Rust Hills
Slice of Life is a type of story that depends less on plot than on an event that effects a change. The slice of life emphasizes mood and character(s) rather than action and builds to an emotional peak through carefully selected detail, skillful characterization, and naturalist dialogue. Unlike traditional work that has a beginning, middle and end, the slice of life is a seemingly unselective presentation of life as it is - a brief, illuminating look at a realistic rather than a constructed situation, revealed to the reader without comment or interpretation by the author.
- Excerpted from Writing in general and the short story in particular by Rust Hills
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