The William Trevor Reader: “Sunday Drinks”
A maxim in creative writing pedagogy is that you should not write so-called “slices of life.” This is near enough a rule that the phrase “slice-of-life” has taken on a negative connotation and is used pejoratively. To say, in a workshop, that someone’s story is “slice-of-life” is to say that nothing really happens, that all the story does is more or less pick an undifferentiated moment at random from a
