The Importance of Writing a Short Story

The first half-bullying, half-provocative exchange in the pilot landed them right in the middle of a stew they've been cooking in ever since. I think every other episode of succession has gone to at least 30 drafts, usually 50, the pilot barely hit 15. We had our read-through in New York on US Election Day 2016. It felt funny, but odd and broken-ended. Fragmentary, abrupt, oblique and slightly brutal. Trump wasn't the firebombing of German civilians, and nor is succession slaughterhouse five. But I do sometimes think about Vonnegut, saying no one in the world profited from the fire bombing of Dresden, except