The Writing Of The Short Story

On Visualization as an Element in Narrative Composition

“Some excellent study methods and questions are given in The Writing of the Short Story, by Lewis Worthington Smith.” -Joseph Berg Esenwein, Studying the Short-story: Sixteen Short-story Classics

“Mr. Smith’s small manual is intended as a text book. His point of view is that of the psychologist; he has undertaken to study psychologically and minutely classify the means by which the short story writer conveys the facts of his narrative and his impression.” -Educational Review, Volume 26, 1903

“Lewis Worthington Smith, professor of English at Drake University…covered issues as specific as different elements of the short story – incident, character, description, and feeling – and as broad as general literary principles – beauty and truth, the organic unity of conception, the pervasive personality of the artist, and the concealment of art.” -Ye Qi, Megashift from Plot to Character In American Short Fiction (1900-1941): A Critical Studying

“We can only commend Mr. Smith’s little book. His chapters and visualization are clear and throw a very interesting light upon the subject.” -The Inlander, Volume 13, 1902