A Look at Short Stories by Wendy H. Jones
I've been thinking about short stories recently. In fact I've been thinking about them a lot. There are a number of reasons for this including moderating the short stories for the Scottish Association of Writers Summer Solstice competition, and having had several short stories published in anthologies. It is an area where I would like to develop and expand my repertoire. Some time ago I read the book in the picture above. It is called Writing Short Stories A Writers' & Artists' Companion by Courttia Newland and Tania Hershman. This is not the cheapest book in the world but it is worth every penny. One of the chapter titles is Stories, those little slices of life . For me that sums up in just a few well chosen words, what short stories are all about. They are a small glimpse into another world, or a means of looking at the ordinary in a different and unexpected way. The writer of short stories must use every highly crafted and well chosen word to draw the ...