Unlock the Secrets Behind Crafting Irresistible First and Second Drafts for Your Short Story Success
You’ve had a break and hopefully you’ve forgotten why you loved this specific turn of phrase or that overlong description. Now you’re going to get brutal. You’re going to cut, add, and rearrange with all the mercy of a general on a battlefield.
First things first: Make sure your story is a story! This might sound obvious, but sometimes it’s not.
When I first started writing shorts, it was all nonsense. Halfway decent prose, but utter nonsense. There was no point. There was no character development. There was no climax. It took a long time for me to realize I was getting rejected because I hadn’t written a story.
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