Think about why the author made certain choices in their piece, and what the outcomes of those choices are. When reading a short story, readers should consider how the writer uses elements like point of view, tone, and structure to generate tension or create a compelling ending. Reading as a writer, also known as ‘critical reading’ or ‘close reading’, involves analyzing how a piece works and how an author achieves particular effects. The more you learn about how texts operate, the better equipped you’ll be as a writer. Reading provides not only inspiration and useful examples of methods, subjects and styles, but also a context within which to develop your own voice and individuality as a writer. Reading the work of a variety of different authors is invaluable for expanding your awareness of what a text can be and do. Perhaps the key to ‘reading as a writer’ – in other words, reading with a writerly eye – is being able to understand a text as its constituent parts while still appreciating it as a whole. But what do we mean by ‘good’? Writers go to books for various reasons, whether for guidance and inspiration, or to understand something better about writing, life, or both. It is impossible to be a good writer without being a good reader first. Then, you’ll want to read the story carefully. The first step in your journey is to choose a short story from the Short Fiction Anthology.
In this unit, you will work toward writing an analysis of a short story using a critical lens. Although a short story has much in common with a novel, it is written with much greater precision. It is limited in scope and has an introduction, body, and conclusion. A short story is a work of short, narrative prose that is usually centered around one single event.
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