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Anonymous Tue Apr 21 18:02:46 2020 No.15160237 [Reply] [Original]

>that video where Brandon Sanderson asks a class of MFA creative writing students how many of them subscribe to short story magazines or regularly read short stories
>one or two people raise their hands out of 20-30
What went wrong? Short stories used to be the bread and butter of genre fiction, but now it is exclusively the domain of pretentious literary authors like George Saunders who prides himself on the fact that nobody reads his shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 18:57:41 2020 No.15160675 >>15160237 Visual media

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 19:27:29 2020 No.15160936 >>15160237 Reading? Bruh, the people in that room attended the conference to learn how to draw fantasy maps.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 20:33:19 2020 No.15161433 >>15160936 it was in the series of videos where the students were writing novels

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 20:37:33 2020 No.15161455 >>15160237 >subscribe to short story magazines Name one

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