Thank you all. My goal is to write a set of short stories that follow a group of people across the same, reasonably short, time line. I've never...
Hello writers, I've started working on a project that is more ambitious than my usual so I've been trying to lay out an outline. Trouble is I've...
That's interesting. Most of my stories naturally come in at around 2.5k, 5k max. 20k seems massive. The stories I tend to like reading are pretty...
Pretty much any thoughts on what makes a great short story. Or what you don't like I suppose. I like stories that deal with a brief moment in time...
Hi all, I love short stories. They are all I read and write these days. I have my opinions on what makes for a great short story and I am...
See, this creepy weirdo you speak of is exactly what I'm worried about. He's long gone and for ever remembered as the creepy weirdo. I don't want...
I'm not too worried about the writing of it. It's totally new to me so I feel like I'm free to play around, get it wrong a bunch of times until I...
I'm not writing porn or anything. It's one story about a woman in her forties whose husband walked out about a month before. A package comes to...
The collection I'm reading is Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh. That sort of dirty realism is certainly new to me and it is a bit of...
Hi all, I'm reading a short story collection at the moment and I love that the writer does not give a damn. The stuff she writes about is grim and...
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