Hello W&A Community! Today I woke up wishing to learn something new. And then I realize: I should write a short story. I hear lot about this here, at W&A's Community section. I've never created one. But there's a problem: I don't even know how to start one! Are there any good tips to begin writing short stories? I'm good at novels - but a complete newbie at this.
Liz at the top of the page mentioned a beginning, a middle and an end. And, as another writer said, not necessarily in that order . . .
I read somewhere that a short story should start at the critical part of your story - something dramatic, a problem to resolve. Then the back story and then resolve your problem. I also read that at the end of any fiction, something had to have changed. I vary things. Sometimes come in in the middle, fill the reader in on the back story and then resolve the situation at the end. I've never submitted a short story, I might add. Good luck
Some really good advice on here.
I was thinking about writing a series of short stories as a side project to coincide with my novel based on one of my characters who becomes the mentor to my main character.