How to Write Like Chekhov

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Why Write? Why I Write 3 • Neither for Fame nor Profit 3 • On Gaiety and Gloomy Tales 5 • The Laws of Nature 5 • The Desire to Write, the Desire to Live 5

For Whom Should One Write? Forget Yourself 6 • The Writer's Audience 7 • For My Contemporaries 7 • Know Your Own Readers 8 • Writing for Connoisseurs 9

What to Write, How to Write How Not to Write 10 • Without Plot or Ending 10 • The Banalities of Daily Life 10 • Reading, Watching, Listening 11 • All Kinds of Subjects 11 • Don't Polish 12 • It's Not What I Saw, but How I Saw 12 • Cut Mercilessly 12 • Literary Police 12 •

Brevity 13 • Witness, Don't Judge 13 • From Dream to Story 14 • Art Should Not Solve Problems 15 • Drawing Life Truthfully 16 • Socrates and the Cook 16

When and How Much to Write Wait a Year 17 • The Author's Warehouse 17 • Five or Six Days 18 • A Year and Six Months 19 • Deadlines 19 • Never Rush 20

2. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

Truth Six Conditions 21 • Neither Cosmetician nor Entertainer 21 • Facts and Artistic Conventions 23 • An Example 23 • Do Not Invent Sufferings You Have Not Experienced Yourself 24 • No Lying in Art 25 • Do Not Lie to Yourself 25 • Rid Yourself of Violence and Falsehood 26

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