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Short Story Writing is Not Easy

I think many of us like the short story for many reasons. I personally like it because in short place, they can explain a lot about certain things. If it’s horror, it can entertain us. If it is love story, it can end up making us feel loved. And things go on with such short stories. I am sure you can see that there are some authors out there who specialize in the short story. They have this knack to write the best thing in short words. And they develop themselves through that. I am learning that skill but so far I don’t have much success with it. And I wish to change that in near future. In this article, I am going to show you why short story writing is not easy and what you can do about it.

Plot

One of the difficult thing to come up with short story is for it’s plot. And you have to find out what are some of the reasons for which getting a good plot matters. Because when it comes to short story, having a good plot is what matters the most. Your plot is going to be judged for entire length. If you are writing something that has no long term impact, then such short stories don’t get much preference. And many times even the editors are going to deny that. So that’s one thing out of the plot matters a lot. You should focus on plot if you are building on something that makes people remember it.

Characters

You have very few words to show the characters in good light. And that’s not going to be easy for you. Your characters need to be coming across as strong and that cna be remembered. I have found that there are some of the characters which come across in short story that you can remember for long time. I am not sure if the characters are easy to write for but some people make it so easy. You can see them building small level of detailing in them in short stories. Mind you this is not easy at all. You’d find that in stories of stephen king, it may not be that easy for any one to spot either.

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Speed

You have to write the story in short time too. You can’t take one year to write 1 story. Because in turn that would not be a good thing for you and the story. Also the amount of money that you make in the process will goes to show you speed does have it’s set of limitations. Making you wonder how some of the good authors write the content in short time. Because they too have some deadlines. And sometimes you have to force the creativity. Doing that you get to do a lot of things. I think people should consider speedy writing if they want to make money. If they write for their own pleasure then sure they can take time.

I think a lot about short story writing is something like an art. So you have to learn how to write. And then take your skills ahead.

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    Mahesh

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