Short Stories! Well, Articles about Them.

Photo by iStock. All writers experience a phenomenon called “writer’s block” at least once in their writing career. Unfortunately for...

By Writers Digest. Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Violent scenes can be hard to write, and they are even harder for readers to read. How can...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. The short story community is already small, and that makes the characters we write about not very diverse. We...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Although shorter than a novel, a short story still should have a full developed setting. The setting is half of...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Playing with different endings can be fun, but how do readers feel about those endings?

Photo by WeHeartIt.com. We talked about how to start a story, so now we have to talk about how to end a story. The middle is the easy...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Realistic dialogue can make or break a story. Here are some tips on how to top off your dialogue.

Photo from WeHeartIt.com Writers block happens when we write the same thing over and over again. A fun way to shake things up is to shake...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Short stories are normally fast, and it can be hard to play around with changing point of views. This article...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com. Novels are not the first step for all authors. Some start out by writing - you guessed it - short stories, and...

Photo from WeHeartIt.com Like many readers, many writers will write in the same genre over and over again instead of venturing out to...

Photo from Jan Fortune. Writers only get better at writing by reading others writing. It seems simple, but it slips our mind as we write.

Photo by WeHeartIt.com. Beginners tips can start to feel repetitive after a while of writing, so here are some new tips and tricks to try...

Photo by WeHeartIt.com. Sharing your stories can be scary, but they are an essential part of growing as an author. A writing group full...

Photo by WeHeartIt.com. When authors get discouraged, it can help to remember why we write. Or it can help to know that our writing is...

Photo by WeHeartIt.com. Although we focus on short stories here, it is important to understand the difference between the several types...

Photo by KL Kranes. Every authors dream is to be published, but many do not know where to start. This is a list of publishing companies...

Photo by Pinterest. This is a first person opinion from an author on the difference between a short story and a novel. When writing a...

Photo by Scottish Book Trust. Everyone knows the hardest part of writing a story is starting it. You have the whole plot in your head -...

Photo by The Writing Cooperative. Writing seems to be this huge, intimidating thing when someone is staring at an empty page or the...

Photo from Fiverr. As much as authors would love to say they write just for the craft, there is a little bit of them that hopes to get...

Photo from LSE Blogs. This article written by Alex Keegan focuses on the idea of what a short story is. What a short story is can be up...

Photo from NYTimes. Although this article is older, it's a great introduction into short stories for those who know nothing about them....

Photo from MasterClass. In this article, the MasterClass staff describes different writing tips for new short story authors. The article...