Hi my fellow writers. I require your guidence. I seem to be having trouble writing a short story. Any guidence for me. It all seem to end up like the first chapter of a book and too much going on. Thanks a lot.
Hi my fellow writers. I require your guidence. I seem to be having trouble writing a short story. Any guidence for me. It all seem to end up like the first chapter of a book and too much going on. Thanks a lot.
I agree with nicholas: The begining middle and end theory- we learn that in Drama!
How I do is, sketch out the idea with the begining-middle-end,
then fill in the characters (It's best if you can portray them well, fully devoloped, or devoloping through an incident in the story)
Then comes the incident itself.
Tips:
try and limit it to just one incident in the story. That way it'll remain a "short" story.
as Dan says, Experiment- make it interesting... diary entries, flashbacks, 2nd person naratives... - you can even mess up the timeline a bit, to make it interesting.
That's all i've got. Have fun writing!
Ps- if your work feels more like a novel's first chapter, then maybe you should continue it that way. I dont know... try both?
I love writing short stories! Particularly flash fiction. For me, the formula that works perfectly is something I read somewhere - start as close to the end as possible. For me, that means that I begin when, metaphorically speaking, the finger is already on the trigger, ready to shoot. And as I shoot, I give my readers (and myself) a whizzing picture of setting and character.
Thanks a lot everyone.
Your comments is really very useful.
Warm Regards to all.