buffy and anton. how to write like chekhov.

“How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration. Straight from his own Letters and Work.” Edited and introduced by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek. Translated by Lena Lencek.

I bought this last night at Borders. This morning I read it and loved it and got to thinking…

I’m not at all sure that ‘Buffy and Anton’ has quite the ring to it that ‘Julie and Julia’ has. But I’ve decided, on a whim, to follow the master of my craft every day for the next however many days it takes in hopes of creating something tolerable enough to worthy his critique.

I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Anton Chekhov (seated bottom right), looking not a little bit like Freddy Rodríguez, with his family and friends in front of their Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya home in 1890.