Unlock the Secret Pitfalls That Sabotage Winning Writing Contest Entries—Are You Making These Fatal Errors?
And yes, this applies to daydreams, too. Make sure the story isn’t all in the character’s head.
10. Nail the ending.
The first 1,450 words of your 1,500-word story are riveting. You don’t have a ton of space to wrap it up, but surely if you just tack on some kind of closing, it’ll be fine, right?
Wrong.
It’s very, very hard to write the perfect ending to a short story, the conclusion that will tie up the loose ends neatly but not too neatly, leaving the story feeling resolved and also a bit mysterious. The judges know this.
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