THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not ...

This is certainly not a magic formula. What I describe above is what works for me. Taking the time to chart your course before diving into the short story allows every word to be written with purpose.

You've decided to write your first short story. Maybe this story idea has been kicking around your head for the last 10 years, or maybe you just googled a list of writing prompts and want to give ...

Writing a Short Story: A Talk with Deborah Eisenberg. By Rachael Brown. April 14, 2010. Share. Save >< Picador. When I begin to read a short story, it is usually with certain reluctance.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...

I also want to get into writing novels the way I write short stories, which is to finish one, put it away, take one out, start another one. And so that would be really hard if you're writing 350 ...