In the opinions of all writers here, How many scenes do you include in a short story? Do you limit it to a few, have a lot or keep it to one well...
Hi there, Does anyone know of any paying magazine (print or online) that is looking for commercial, character lead dark/urban fantasy of between...
Hi. I've been looking for a decent writing forum for some time, so stumbling across this one came as a godsend. I'm nineteen, and a poet,...
I wasn't sure where to post this, but I've been wanting for a while to write some short stories to post on here for some feedback. The problem...
So to give a background of what I am talking about: Currently I am working on a novel (a stand alone that I hope will be good enough to be made...
If you are not confident with your writing and you feel like you need to practise on your creative writing then just find a random picture and...
If you have not seen the previous post, go and chaeck it out This is a practice post for you to observe pictures that have a story behind them [in...
Hey. So first off I wanna say this is my first post, so if I'm doing something wrong, please tell me so I can try to fix it. Right. So I'm having...
Hi all. I've been doing what the title suggests for the last year or so after feeling like I wasn't equipped to write a novel. Now that I've...
Hi :) I'm new here, and before you read on, a tl;dr: I have no idea how to develop storytelling skills or how to practice this skill and I'm...
The title was useless. I agree. Now, the thing is, that I'm writing a collection of short stories, based on which I'll write a novel each, but...
In my travels thru the many websites that provide how to's, tips, guidelines ect... about writing I have noticed a common suggestion that...
I have had an idea for a story for some time now. I would love to see if this comes off as an interesting topic to some of you guys and gals....
I would like to get some feed back on the subject of the amount to descriptive detail used in short stories. I wrote the following paragraph (in...
I'm in the middle of my first short story. It's science fiction and takes place in the future. I would like to explain to the reader how the...
Since I've started the short story I'm currently working on I've had a couple ideas that are pretty cool and I'd like to do something with them...
Is it a legitimate technique to plot a novel as a series of short stories that are basically chapters using the same characters? I get lost the...
While working on a novel, when I start an entirely new scene I usually start a new chapter. But what do I do in a short story? I have a short...
I'm working on a short horror story in which the main character has extreme paranoia about the people close to them dying/being hurt. They have...
When writing short stories. What's the min-max word count. Was thinking of publishing some electronically but not sure weither to keep single or...
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