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How to Write a Short Story Every Day
Its easier than you think
I love writing short stories.
Maybe a little too much as I tend to write them rather than doing other things like talking to people and going outside.
But, there are a ton of reasons to write short stories.
One, you get the rapturous joy of finishing something. There is absolutely nothing better than typing “The End” at the bottom of a piece.
Now, if you write books you get that feeling once, maybe twice a year. But with short stories you can get a small piece of that satisfaction far more often.
There are plenty of other reasons to write short stories as well.
One, because of their length you can try out ideas that you wouldn’t normally want to write. With a short story, you don’t need a grand story capable of filling out an entire book.
All you need is enough story for seven pages at most. Heck, you can go a lot smaller than that. I love flash fiction. And with that you can go down to 100 words if you really wanted to.
I mean Ernest Hemingway once told a story with six words, so you never have to worry about going too short.
And it can be like the minor leagues for your ideas. For example, you start working on an idea and you realize that there is far more story than you thought there’d be.
You keep writing and writing, and quickly you realize that this isn’t a short story. It’s a book.
So, you bump it up to the majors and start working on it like the bigger project that it is.
In keeping with this idea, short stories allow you to experiment. Want to write a story without writing the letter “m?” I don’t why you’d want to but you could do it.
Want to write a story completely in second person? A short story would handle that better.
Heck, recently, I tried to write a story using only dialogue. I failed but here it is:
