Short Story Writing Tips

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Short Story Writing Tips

• By
• Shortstorylovers.com

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• Are you thinking to
• write a short story
• or started writing!

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• We all love reading short stories, but its
  not easy to write such stories, but for most
  writers, writing short stories is a very simple
  task. But dont be afraid. Writing short stories
  is not a big deal! You just have to keep some
  points in your mind and you can be a good story
  writer.
• Reading and writing short stories is a fun
  or it can be one of the most enjoyable
  experiences of your life. Writing a short story
  doesnt take so much time and it helps you in
  sharpen your writing skills.

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• So, if you want to write your story like a real
  writer,
• here are some short stories writing tips that
  will
• help you in writing a great story and you
• will learn mistakes done by some new story
  writers.

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Planning

• Before writing any story you should have
  proper planning same as you plan before starting
  any project like building your house or vacation
  planning.
• If you want best results, treat your story
  like a project for you. Planning tips includes
  main characters of the story, starting of the
  story, maximum word limit and climax or ending of
  the story. Before writing any story you should
  have answers of these kinds of few questions.

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Word Limit

• Make sure that you story should not be
  lengthy, mostly readers dont like to read
  lengthy stories. Always try that your story
  should be readable in short span of time.

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Creative and explorative

• While reading story anybody can judge your
  story in the beginning only. If reader finds
  story boring in starting he will not read the
  whole story.
• Nobody reads boring stories. To keep reader
  stick your story should be creative. You can make
  you story more and more creative only from your
  imagination and you can explore lots of new ideas
  from your story.

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Characters in story
For writing short stories, only try to
give 3 or 4 supporting characters. Lots of
characters would make your story complicated
which can confuse the reader.
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Writing

• When your plan is ready, revise it and make
  sure you have answers of all the questions. Now,
  start writing the story.
• While writing the story dont think you are
  doing writing or grammatical mistakes. Just swim
  in your imagination and put your imagination on
  paper.

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Use dialogues

• Dialogues in story make reader curious to
  know what will be the reaction of that dialogue.
  So, using dialogues will make your story more
  creative.

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Emotions

• Use of emotional dialogues and scenes creates
  interest in reading story by heart. It generates
  curiosity in the mind of reader.

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Revision

• When you feel you have completed your story,
  revise it. Check out your grammatical mistakes,
  spelling mistakes, any scene, dialogue, situation
  etc in story and make sure that everything is
  compatible and linked to each other.
• If you feel some change in scenes, dialogues
  etc. do it.

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• We hope you like these tips and for a
  beginner, tips given above are enough to help in
  writing short stories. So don't wait and start
  writing stories.

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