About Short Stories
If you browse around the internet today you will find a plethora of information about short stories. As a matter of fact, if you do a simple Google search, “About Short Stories”, you will end up with about 2,050,000,000 results. Yikes! Reading all that will keep you busy for several lifetimes.
To help you with your research on the subject of short stories, I have listed a number of resources to help you learn whatever you want to learn about short stories. Of course, this is a VERY short list compared to the above search results, but these are some that have a nice bit of information.
- The online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a one stop shop for nearly everything. The write up on short stories is quite detailed from a simple definition through a thorough look at the history of them.
- The Writing Cooperative is a great resource for writing. I especially enjoyed their article on 5 Reasons Why Short Stories Are Far From Dead. As the title states, this is a piece about how the short story is thriving today.
- As the Editor of Writing from the Peak (Pikes Peak Writers blog) I would be remiss not to mention one or two articles from their blog. The first is, “What is a Short Story”. Obviously this is a post about the nuts and bolts of a short story. Another good post is, “Here and Gone in a Flash“. The latter of the two is an introduction to writing flash fiction which is a short story in less than 1,000 words.
- Writer’s Digest is bursting with information on writing short stories. I did a search on their website, “short stories” and the results were over twenty articles on the subject. A couple that caught my eye: Short Training for Your Long Game: How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Hone Your Novel-Writing Skills, and a podcast, The Writer’s Digest Podcast, Episode 3: Writing and Publishing Short Stories and Essays — Interview with Windy Lynn Harris
- READERS–I haven’t forgotten you! Are you looking for some great reads? I can suggest one anthology that I recently finished, “False Faces: Twenty Stories About the Masks We Wear” . This is a new release from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. But, if you would rather find your own, I hopped over to Goodreads to see what they had for their Best Anthologies. They listed 781 books. I’ll leave it to you to sort through that list.
So there you have it. Remember, there are about 2,049,999,992 more results you can browse through.
This post inspired by:
A to Z Blogging Challenge 2019
And the Letter – A –
K.J. Scrim, Author 
I just recently got back into writing short stories… I hadn’t written any since I was in grad school for my MFA in fiction writing! But I’ve completed two this year, and still need to go back and edit them with fresh eyes. Thanks for sharing these resources!
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Nice collection of resources. I have to admit: I haven’t written a short story in a while, mostly because I feel I need a really good idea to put one together. I guess I should get back to it.
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I love writing short stories – culling all of the fluff and getting right into the action can be so refreshing after writing novels
Debbie
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looking good
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Thanks for a great post.
I’m on my way to read ‘Short Training for Your Long Game: How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Hone Your Novel-Writing Skills’. I have never been able to write short stories but am really interested in how they can help with my fantasy novels.
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I really enjoy short stories, both reading them and writing them. I saw this quote once from Stephen King which said that a short story was like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. I love that.
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Love the quote. I have not heard that one so I went browsing. Here’s the full quote, “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
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I have been wanting to challenge myself to write some short stories. They can be more difficult than novels. I love links, so thank you! I will keep reading. Asking for Help to Avoid Burnout
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Took me forever to find the comment icon – I’ve never seen that one before. Anyway, short stories are indeed a skill and I look forward to reading here in the posts to come.
http://shirleyjdietz.com/2019/04/01/adventure-2/
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Sorry about the comment icon. Some of the templates that WordPress provides can be a bit challenging…glad you persevered.
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Very interesting! Thanks for the tips, and for shortening the search!
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You’re welcome.
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