Welcome to Short People ~ created by Andrew Wright
Hello, Iâm Andrew Wright. Iâm a writer and I live near Chelmsford, Essex.
I started out working in the film and television industry, but writing has always been my passion: scriptwriting primarily, but during the years of raising my children I found writing novels suited my lifestyle. Also, I discovered that I enjoyed writing novels even more (and I really liked writing scripts!). I found the process freeing, and I could go to places with the story which wouldnât normally fit the format of a screenplay.
Why Short People?
Short People began as a television script around 2008 or so: Iâve always been a huge fan of Adrian Tomineâs books, in particular Summer Blonde, which is a collection of four non-related stories focusing on disconnected characters and âthe loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.â (I dream of adapting Summer Blonde as a film, but thatâs another storyâŠ)
So my plan was to have six episodes made up of six or so short stories - some almost sketch-length, some soliloquies. Some characters would feature in different stories as main or supporting figures, akin to Pulp Fiction. The central idea was to tell varied stories about complicated people, because thatâs what makes the world go round, right?
ANYWAY: Short People is now on here in bite-size chunks, so youâll find lots of weird and wonderful tales.
Some are about people you know. Some are about that stranger who lives across the road from you. Always about people.
Why subscribe?
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Every month you will have access to:
Short People. An archive of flash fiction: Very short stories, focusing on us human beings. Always free to read.
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With a paid subscription, you get:
The Long & Short. Stories longer than a hundred words. Stories like The Mutual.
The Blunder Years. Remember The Wonder Years? Well, like that but more bumbling. Start with Letters of Note.
Red Light & Bell. Excerpts from my film making diaries.
Anything to Declare. Newsletters, essays, musings and true-life experiences.
The Archive: Access to every single post.
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