How To Write 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. Short story writing can be a productive use of your time, and it can be a very fun hobby. At the same time, however, short story writing is not all that much fun if no one reads your story!

Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most heralded writers in modern American literature. From the late 1940s until his death in the late 2000s, Vonnegut wrote critically acclaimed and highly-regarded short stories, novels, and essays. Somewhere along the way, Vonnegut compiled his list of "rules" for writing short stories. The next few paragraphs capture these ideas of his.

Vonnegut's first two rules dealt with the way you should take care of the reader - first off, by making absolutely sure the reader won't feel like you wasted their time, and secondly, that you 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 next implored writers to do the following: Make horrible things happen to your characters, even if they are kind and sweet. By doing this, you allow the reader to see what the characters are made of. Vonnegut's next pieces of advice were as follows: start as close to the end as possible, and write to please just one person. The idea in this last one, of course, is that if the one person loves the story, everyone else who loves such stories will love it also.

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

In his notes on this list, Vonnegut also allowed that you can break every one of these rules and still write wonderful short stories. But if you are going to take the advice of someone when writing short stories, you could certainly do a whole lot worse than Kurt Vonnegut.

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