Short story writing

by Charles Raymond Barrett

• Editor: method of approaching, [223], [228];
• • needs of, [224], [225]-[227];
  • letter to, [229], [230];
  • opinion of, [231];
  • rejection by, [232], [233].
• Elaboration of facts, [89].
• Elemental Plot: defined, [58];
• • in "Ambitious Guest," [59].
• Element of Surprise: defined, [162];
• • genuine, [165].
• Element of Suspense: defined, [161];
• • relief of, [162]-[164], [177]-[179];
  • ended by climax, [174].
• End: [see Conclusion].
• Epistolary form, [125].
• Epoch of the Short Story, [12].

• Fable, [28].
• Facts: source of plots, [50];
• • in fiction, [78];
  • acquisition of, [78], [84];
  • familiar, [80];
  • unfamiliar, [80], [81];
  • about society, [81];
  • historical, [82];
  • utility of, [84];
  • use of, [86], [87];
  • not strange, [86];
  • plausibility of, [89];
  • suppression and elaboration of, [89];
  • in "Ambitious Guest," [90]-[93];
  • characters based on, [94];
  • introduced in beginning, [132]-[138].
• False Climax, [179]-[182], [183].
• Fantastic Tale, [31].
• Fantasy, [19].
• Fashions in short stories, [226].
• Fiction: founded on fact, [78];
• • verisimilitude in, [87];
  • life in, [88];
  • derivation of characters in, [94];
  • names in, [105];
  • surprise in, [170].
• Figures of speech, [195].
• "Fine writing," [193].
• First person narrative, [122]-[125].
• Foreign words and phrases, [196].

• Genius: value of, [209];
• • dependence on, [214].
• Ghost Story, [30].
• Grammar: disregard of, [204];
• • faults of, [219].
• Greek unities: observance of, [47];
• • in "Ambitious Guest," [48].

• Happy ending, [185].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: influence on short story, [11];
• • his didactic stories, [28]-[30].
• Hero: description of, [96], [97], [98]-[102];
• • importance of, [103];
  • as narrator, [122]-[125];
  • an animal or a thing, [126]-[128].
• Humor, [20];
• • attempted, [111].
• Humorous Story, [38].

• Imagination, [51].
• Imaginative Tale, [27].
• Individuality: influences style, [189];
• • cultivation of, [205].
• Inspiration: value of, [212]-[214];
• • dependence on, [214];
  • creation of, [214]-[216].
• Instructive Story, [35].
• Irving, Washington: influence on short story, [11];
• • used narration within narration, [131];
  • used dilatory beginning, [138].
• Italics, [191], [201].

• Kipling, Rudyard: made hero an animal, [127];
• • used prefatory beginning, [142].

• Length: of short story, [17];
• • of title, [75];
  • of beginning, [132], [146];
  • of climax, [172];
  • of conclusion, [182].
• Letters: narration by, [125];
• • accompanying MSS., [229];
  • of recommendation, [230].
• Local Color, [156].
• Love Element, [18].

• Mailing MSS., [228].
• Material, acquisition of, [84], [210]-[212].
• Methods of Narration, [119]-[131].
• Moral Story, [28].
• MSS.: preparation of, [216], [218], [228];
• • submitting, [222]-[227], [229]-[233];
  • letter with, [229];
  • record of, [232].
• Manuscript record, [232].

• Names: of characters, [105];
• • in fiction, [105];
  • of places, [145].
• Narration: methods of, [119], [131];
• • natural, [120];
  • impersonal, [120]-[122];
  • unity in, [122];
  • in first person, [122]-[125];
  • by letter or diary, [125];
  • by an animal or a thing, [126]-[128];
  • by multiplicity of narrators, [128];
  • within narration, [129]-[131].
• Nature, influence of, [143].
• Newspapers, material from, [84].
• Nonsense Story, [38].
• Novel: short story a school for, [12];
• • compared with short story, [23];
  • influence of, [150], [155], [175].

• "Or" in title: sensational, [72]-[74];
• • too long, [75].