This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.
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The best definition of a short story if you want to write one.:
"Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories" gives the writer a bifocal look at the genre: Part: How to loosen up and start writing. Part: The Anatomy of a Short Story (aside from being short). The key uniqueness is the avoidance of didactic lessons on proper English and punctuation, which anyone reading this little gem should already know. The Book is a very "quick read" and you'll close the cover at the end and say, as I did, "This book goes in my laptop case so I have it all the time to dip... more info
Good deal:
The book arrived pretty promptly from Amazon. It was exactly what I expected it to be --full of good writing advice.
good but not specific to short stories:
I wanted a book to show me the difference in technique between a short story and novel length. This book didn't help me. If you want an overall view of how to write, this book is simple and arranged well, but I'm not sure why the title empahsis is on short story.
Good Quick Reference Guide:
Schaum's guide is a good quick reference guide in the same sense a good gourmet cookbook may serve as a quick reference guide for getting a creative meal started. It is helpful in recalling key incredients and in just what portions and in what order they should be presented but as far as a guide to inspire, I must report this guide is NOT! Sadly, what is needed is a chapter entitled, "Ideas!!! And how to put form to them."
I like the book and it is a good quick reference guide and it is well worth... more info
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