i spent about two years writing this thing that its title says it all it was call la boda of edwardo which i think mean he had's wedding and gave it to my wife and she read it. early on i got the sense you have to have a feeling for beauty and eight pages i know when a beautiful eight pages look like. it gets up to 80 or a hundred i lose the focus. >> rose: do you sometimes start out as a novel believing it's a novel and realizing es not. >> usually what happens it starts off to be a story and it's kind of a week of i'm there it's a novel. then another three months until it finally happened for me and at the three month period where you grow it and grow it and a moment of truth where you think if it is a novel it's a nine page novel and you shrink it down. >> rose: how is a short story both limiting as well as expanding. >> i think actually -- >> rose: what's magical about it. >> i think it's actually the limit that mock it magical. it's that sense of time passing. you look at a nine-page story and you know something magically is supposed to happen by page eight and-a-half. it's sort

we spoke by phone edwardo. supposed to be a night for college students. >> it was like a fundraiser for up coming graduation. and they were kind of celebrating the beginning of the term as ll as gathering money for graduation later on. and people now are very concerned on how safe their children are where they are going. mind you, this was a very well-known and respected night club at that town. >> the fire's being called the deadliest night club fire in the world. the mayor declared a 30 day mourning period. >>> president mohammed morsi declared a state of emergency. more than 50 people have been killed in the latest round of violence. morsi has not followed through with reforms in 2011. >> that is a message from a young kid president. people need to quit being lazy and make a difference. hear his inspiring message straight ahead. >> plus, if you want to make a difference in a life, you can start right now. call 202-895-3307. volunteers from several organizations are ready to take your call. holly is going to

i spent about two years writing this thing that its title says it all, it was call la boda of edwardo which i think mean he had's wedding and gave it to my wife and she read it. early on i got the sense you have to have a feeling for beauty and eight pages i know when a beautiful eight pages look like. it gets up to 80 or a hundred i lose the focus. >> rose: do you sometimes start out as a novel believing it's a novel and realizing es not. >> usually what happens it starts off to be a story and it's kind of a week of i'm there it's a novel. then another three months until it finally happened for me and at the three month period where you grow it and grow it and a moment of truth where you think if it is a novel it's a nine page novel and you shrink it down. >> rose: how is a short story both limiting as well as expanding. >> i think actually -- >> rose: what's magical about it. >> i think it's actually the limit that mock it magical. it's that sense of time passing. you look at a nine-page story and you know something magically is supposed to happen by page eight and-a-half. it's sort