Why Is This Good? episode 121: "When Stars Collide" by Ottessa Moshfegh

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In this episode, we discuss "When Stars Collide" by Ottessa Moshfegh. What can we learn from this work of Flash Fiction? How do specific actions and details help define a character? How can a character sketch undermine a character's sense of themself? When should a story be written as flash fiction? Can we let our ideas create the structure and style of a story? When can a character tell us about their own feelings?

Read the story here: https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash...

Why Is This Good? is a podcast from the Naples Writers' Workshop in which we read successful stories and ask "Why is this good?"

Through our discussion, we hope to discover useful things to say about how fiction works, the craft of writing, and literary art. We try to find lessons for our own writing by closely examining well-written stories, and we hope to share some of those lessons with our audience.

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