Luckily, for a short, the outline doesn’t need to be absurdly long—but it’s still important to have. 3. Write the first draft: Write, write, write. You’ve done all the pre-work ...

Writing short stories presents a unique challenge, requiring a careful balance of creativity, structure, and brevity. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), writers now have access to ...

my dream world. Since I'm not a dream interpreter, I decided to take my curiosity to the form of a short story to see how I ...

"When I was working out whether I could be a writer, whether I could make other people feel the way I felt when I read certain books, it was short stories – rather than novels – that I would ...

We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times,” to talk about what makes good short writing.