# Short Story-Writing: An Art or a Trade?

Author: Fagin, N. Bryllion (Nathan Bryllion), 1892-1971

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66600

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Short+Story-Writing%3A+An+Art+or+a+Trade%3F+Fagin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Moods may be uncomfortable, and sad, and painfully disturbing, but, on the other hand, they make pleasant music occasionally. Here I sit in the dusk, looking out into the street that is ordinarily so familiar to me, but has suddenly become blurred and weirdly mysterious in the gathering murk. A veil is over my eyes, which see the familiar houses across the street, the young poplars in front of them, the few passers-by. But my mind does not discern these objects; it sees far subtler things--floating, flimsy, evanescent. The dusk is in my mind, evoking thoughts, illusions, pictures--and speaking, questioning, singing. The dusk is an overture to the things I have set out to say, playing innu...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-writing-an-art-or-a-trade-66600/chapters/8/index.md)