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"Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard"

 Having lived on this planet for a lifetime I can't imagine what hell would be like. (me)

Cultivate ambiguity. 

“[O]ne’s become used to these overlong novels in which everything is explained and tidied up. At the heart of every good short story lies a certain ambiguity, a sort of ‘Yes, but.’ That’s very seldom found in novels. And yet this ambiguity is the very stuff of life.”

 

source    Literary Hub    Emily Temple