Write Short Stories With Confidence

The fast and simple way to plot your short stories

I’ve had several questions this week from authors who want to write short stories. I created this simple infographic from the tips in the article: Writing Kindle Fiction: Make Money With Short Stories. If you hew to that basic plot outline, you’ll be able to write satisfying stories quickly.

And if you get stuck…

Here’s a writing process anyone can use.

Here’s my basic process, simply described. It will change your writing life:

1. Start With a Blurb.

Perhaps you’ve made this nasty error as I have: you didn’t read something carefully enough. You simply assumed. And you made a horrible mistake. Once I almost signed a book contract before I realized that the sneaky publisher had included a clause which assigned the copyright in the book to the publisher. That was a close call.

I mention revision in the above article. Most of your challenges when revising your short stories will be eliminated if you focus on motivation.

Revising Fiction: Motivation Is Everything, I said:

Motivation Makes Revision Much Easier.

In real life, you want something just because you want it. In fiction, you’re motivated to want something because_______ (fill in the blank.)

When I’m helping students with revision, everything becomes simpler once they fix on a motivation for each of their characters. A character comes alive. He or she starts to make sense. You can rapidly weed out paragraphs and entire scenes, because they’re no longer necessary.

OK… now go ahead and write — and publish — your short stories with confidence. 🙂

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Angela Booth

Angela Booth is a copywriter, author published by major publishers, and writing teacher. She offers many guides, courses and classes to help writers to enhance their skills at her online store. She also provides inspiration and motivation for writers on her writing blogs. Angela has been writing successfully since the late 1970s, and was online in the 1980s, long before the birth of the Web. Her novels and business books have been widely published.