Tips For Writing Short Stories

You don't have to be an "aspiring novelist" or a working writer to have a desire to write a short story. For many people, short story writing is relaxing - it is fun, therapeutic, and enjoyable. Writing short stories can be a great hobby, and can enable you to use your free time in a productive manner. At the same time, however, it is not much fun at all if you write short stories that no one reads!

In modern American literature, few writers were as highly regarded as Kurt Vonnegut. For over fifty years - from the late 1940s to the mid-2000s - he wrote novels, essays, and short stories that were widely-read and highly acclaimed. At one point during Vonnegut's writing journey, he compiled his list of "rules" for short story writing. The next few paragraphs capture these ideas of his.

Vonnegut began his rules focused on what you should do for the reader - firstly, that you should make sure the reader won't leave your story feeling like they wasted their time, and secondly that you should give the reader at least one character they can root for. From here, Vonnegut stuck with characters next, saying that each of your characters should want something - even if this "something" is insignificant - and then he said that every sentence should either reveal character or advance action. Vonnegut goes on to tell you that you should make awful things happen to your characters, no matter how sweet they are. This allows the reader to see what the character is made of. He advises writers to start as close to the end as they possibly can, and to write to just please one person. You can understand this last one by realizing that if you write for one person, and that one person loves it, then every other person who has the same tastes as your "one person" will certainly love it also.

Finally, Vonnegut tells writers to give as much information as possible as quickly as possible. He says, "to heck with suspense." He claimed that the reader should always have a complete understanding of what is going on.

Of course, Vonnegut admitted that you can break all of these rules and still create a terrific short story. But you could sure do a lot worse than Kurt Vonnegut if you are going to find a writer to take advice from for writing short stories.

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