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.

1. Writing a Short Story-Getting Started
2. Characters-How to Create People Who Live and Breathe on the Page
3. Conflict-How to Devise a Story That Readers Won't Want to Put Down
4. Plot and Structure-How to Shape Your Story and Keep It Moving Forward
5. Setting and Atmosphere-How to Bring Readers into a VIvid Story World
6. Narrative Voice-How to Develop Your Individual Voice As a Writer
Appendix A: Suggested Reading-Exploring the Realm of Short Stories
Appendix B: When Your Story Is Written-A Quick Guide to Submitting Manuscripts for Publicatoin
Appendix C: How to Format Your Manuscript

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