Alternate Writes

Short Stories

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short” -Henry David Thoreau It is one thing to write a novel of a screenplay, but it really is something else to write a short. I am writing “Broadway Sketches,” a series of vignettes, to hopefully direct and produce sometime this year. So far, there are about eight story lines and only nineteen pages. Every line of dialogue has to count. Every action should have a thought behind…