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The best Australian short
stories would rank with
those from U.S.A., thinks
Mr. Gavin Casey, if Austra
lian writers were allowed the
same freedom of expression
as American authors.
The best modern short
stones among Englishspeak
ing countries, Mr. Casey says,
are American, with Australian
a little above the English.
t SPfa]dn2 last night before the W.A.
Institute of Advertising, Mr. Case-
saul that although few Australians, if
any,- were likely to establish world
wide reputations, most of them woula
die trying to do better work.
Mr. Casey made a plea for the
greater recognition of the Australian
wri,er of fiction. Short stories were
hard to sell, he said, and, unfortu
nately, the biggest demand was for
romantic, unimportant stories.
Good fiction was important because
it did more than any other form of
writing to assist men to understand
each other.
Golden rules, he added, were;
'Eschew padding; keep the
writer, his views, his personali
tty, right out of the picture; tell
the whole story through the talk,
the actions, and the thoughts of
the characters; make people talk
as they woula talk, and not as
yo-u write.'
A common fault in poor writing
was that characters were not only
improbable, but did not remain true
to -type from beginning to end of th*
story, _ ^ i
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