Many people think that writing a short story should be pretty easy. After all, its only about two to four thousand words that they have to get down on the page. But, when they sit down to actually write the thing, they may discover something. Writing a short story is not as easy as it ...
Although some adult magazines do accept short story submissions from freelancers, it is much easier to sell short stories to children’s magazines. If you have a love for children and if you can write an entertaining story, this might be a great market for you. Most children’s magazines have at least one short story per ...
Starting a short story is often the most difficult part because it is in the first few paragraphs that you establish the tone, pace and mood of the entire work. Starting your short story is a crucial point and should be handled with care. Novels allow the author some “wiggle-room” when it comes to capturing ...
Short stories were once a staple of great literature. Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Carver, Welty, Faulkner, the list of prominent authors who wrote in this format reads like a who’s who of any upper level English literature class. While movies have long be inspired by novels and plays, short stories have also inspired some terrific movies. Often ...
Before I continue, let’s stop and get one point clear – if you are entering a short story contest to win money and/or fame, forget it. Writers don’t get money and/or fame from winning a short story contest. They get money and/or fame by getting published. Entering a short story contest should only be done ...
“He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.” In the short story, The Monkey’s Paw, written by W. W. Jacobs, fate and chance play a major role. The story strongly suggests that a person’s life is pre-determined by fate and interference would ...
Maybe you’ve considered two types of stories: a parable and modern realistic short stories. But short fiction comes in more than these two varieties. Other popular forms we might know include fairy tales and mystery stories, science fiction stories, and popular romance. While we need not rehearse all of short fiction’s various guises, it will ...
Most writers would assert that the qualifications of a well-written short story are limited to length, but they would be wrong. While the length of a short story is important – most are shorter than 5,000 words – there are other qualities that a work of fiction must possess in order to be considered a ...
One of the most popular online search phrases continues to be about making money online. For unpublished fiction writers searching for that ever-elusive break, it is the foundation of countless phrases entered into search engines on a daily basis. Writers, both published and unpublished, want to make money writing short stories. Wouldn’t it be great ...
Editing is every writer’s least favorite task because it means clipping and pruning those sentences you worked so hard to formulate. Editing a short story is sometimes even harder than editing articles because writers are usually more attached to fiction work. The key to editing your short story effectively is taking yourself away from the ...
