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Any advice on writing short stories? What makes a good one? (And how to make it not spiral into a bigger longer project)
Or any links?
#writing #writingcommunity #queerwriters
@bolt451 This could help:
- Focus on the story and not on the characters, who are nothing more than tools within it.
- Think about and design the impact of the ending and build around that impact.
- As you don't have much time to explain things, use adjectives to give context.
- If you have to explain something, and it requires more than 100 characters, it's not going to work in the story.
- Start with an emotional situation, weed it out with logic and find a surprising ending. It works 100/100.
@bolt451 If I may, here is an example of a somekind-short-story that uses these points. It is only three paragraphs long.