Steps to write a short story
Steps to write a short story Find your key emotion or theme you want to write about. This is the feeling or emotion you want to give to your readers, and what all the elements in your short story will work together to achieve. What kind of story do you want to tell—and why? Start your story with a strong visual snapshot . Because of the restrictions of the short story format, you won’t have a lot of room for exposition. To get around this, consider starting your story in media writerly practice that means opening in the middle of the action and filling in details later. This takes you straight to your important scene. Build your story, remembering that you only have a certain number of words. Don’t waste time and space. Everything in the short story needs to be vital. Read and re-read every sentence and ask yourself: does it really need to be there? Does it serve the higher purpose of illuminating your story’s mood? As Edgar Allan Poe once said: “A short story must have a ...