Snoogums, please rephrase this and ask it again.
If you’re asking how to write a story, I just had an ear-bender with a highly gifted completely unappreciated dramaturge named Roger Olson who is fond of making connections between Hemingway and Longfellow and insisted Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” had classical undertones that make the innovative narrator’s voice a transcendental thing and the brief short story as layered as anything with "Call me Ishmael " in it.
That’s a crazy kind of logic when you’re exposed to it the first time, the idea of a thing like a short story having elements of transcendental opera by Richard Wagner.
Googling Lardner, I discovered he claimed to sometimes write a short story by filling in the space left on a page with a story after randomly writing some words. That was very do-able with a typewriter, I suppose.
I could be wrong, but Errol Stanley Gardner seems to do something similar, though I can’t prove it.
My own approach is to use the Golden Rule and pray a lot before starting, and love my audience so that I would try to never waste a minute of their time, and then to take prayer breaks when I bog down. My take on the whole art and literature thing is to resort to the scientific method – if the audience is smarter, richer, healthier and better after your “entertainment,” then you did good.
