I think "influenced" means I read them and liked how I felt and then wanted to make new things that would make me feel how they made me feel. Story 8 is "influenced" also a little by Jean Rhys. The other stories are "influenced" by Lorrie Moore. The stories "influenced" by Joy Williams in this collection are stories number 5, 6, 7 and maybe 2 a little. I am impressed by stories that are "thematic on the language level." When I lectured my classmates they listened politely then talked about something else. I wanted them to understand that Lorrie Moore is the only writer I have read that is consistently "thematic" on the language level. I think I lectured people in class about that. I think it means she repeats the same words or images or ideas or else variations of those words or images or ideas throughout the story. Lorrie Moore is the only writer I have read that is consistently "thematic" on the language level. That is how many hours it takes me to write a professional, 20-page short story with themes on the language level. I worked many hours on the stories in Bed. I always found something I liked in every story. I almost never criticized anyone else's stories. In one class someone attacked me for being "postmodern." I just stared at my computer screen for about 3 minutes trying to remember another instance of someone "attacking" me in workshop but could not think of anything. Whenever a person criticized my stories I lectured them until they stopped talking.
" I submitted these stories to undergraduate writing workshops at New York University.
I wrote things like, "Insert something for flow," "Make this a lot tighter," "Edit this part tonight you piece of shit," or "Terrible shit. I printed the stories in single-spaced, size-6 font to "gain perspective." I wrote notes on the paper.
I created charts for some of these stories. While writing these stories I studied stories by Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams. Each story is a professional, Best American Short Stories-style, 20-page short story with professionally-constructed themes, realistic yet "engaging" narrative arcs, and an attention to language both noticeable and unobtrusive. Bed is a medium-sized book of nine stories.
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