Chekhov's Six Principles for a Good Story
Just putting it out here that Chekhov, in a letter to his elder brother that was written sometime in 1886, set forth the six principles for a good story, which are as follows: 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature 2. Total objectivity 3. Truthful descriptions of persons and objects 4. Extreme brevity 5. Audacity and originality: flee the stereotype 6. Compassion
