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86Five Key Elements Of Writing A Short Story
(In response to THIS request) Writing a short story can be broken down in many ways, but the following five elements constitute what I believe make up a pretty solid core: Character Desire Conflict ...
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72short story. Staying at Home.
a short story just the right length to read in a coffee break. Elsie wants to stay ....with the things she is familar with...
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66Mysterious Visitors
I wasn't very busy in my dream last night when some mysterious visitors came by. The usual for a dream, I suppose. You know, a young, blond haired lady with a spectacular coiffure and a small boy who had an...
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78Discovering Great Short Story Ideas
I've been discovering great story ideas for years, and with my help, you will too. It's all a matter of discovering your 'what ifs' and using them to ...
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80Publishing Short Stories: How to Get Your Fiction Published
Writers often struggle to find the right place to publish their short stories and other work. Where can I publish my fiction? Where can I publish my short stories? A lot of people lament the "death" of the...
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86short story. When The Bird Sings in the Pine Wood.
A bird is singing in the pine woods, the song is piercing the still evening air. ...you could see her, silhouetted, watch her gazing out across the sea, staring at the point where the vast sky and the sea met.. the hem of Laurel's dress...
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56How to Create an Immersive Setting
There are as many ways to create an immersive setting for a novel as there are novelists who achieved it. They all manage to build up enough detail about the world of the book that the reader is swept away...
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55Writing a short story
On my way to Denver a few weeks ago I picked up one of those airline magazines and, in an effort to pass the time away, I read it from front to back. Near the end was a short-short story. I can't tell you how...
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67How to Write Genre Fiction for Beginners
Genre Fiction can be defined as stories that deal with the speculative or the imaginary. Traditionally this encompasses genres like Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. If you are interested in getting into this type of writing then look no further.
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63Ten tips for writing a good short story
Writing a good short story is also to some extent like writing a good poetry. Like writing poetry, you require a unique gift of observation of life and incidences happening around you, and you should have the...
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