How to write short stories

Eric Klingenberg's avatarEric's blog

That isn’t a statement it’s a question. If you are reading this for advice sorry I don’t have a clue. I have written one short story for a competition. I enjoyed writing it, there was a word limit so easy to know how long it should be. I showed it to my writer friend who was less than complimentary about it. I did a bit or re-writing but then lost my nerve and didn’t send it off. I still have it I suppose there is always next year.

I now have six outlines for short stories but I haven’t mustered the nerve to write them yet. I know they need the same elements of a novel and have to contain character development, conflict, mystery and twists but in a more condensed form. I have read some brilliant ones in blogs, some just 20 words long. Reading those has made me…

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