Short Stories
The short story is a medium that doesn’t get a lot of publicity. This is unfortunate because there have been some great works published as short stories. Many great films were based on stories that were originally published as short stories. The exact length of a short story is subject to debate. Everything from 1000 words to over 20000 … Keep Reading → words has been at times categorized as a short story. What is consistent is that it is usually much more focused than a novel, often focusing on a single event. Some of the great short story writers are very familiar names. Writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain have all written outstanding short stories. Short stories are often found in collections that are published in books or as individual stories that may be in magazines or on websites.
