How to Write Short Stories for Magazines - and Get Published
2009-02-25 09:42:00 Sophie King, "How to Write Short Stories for Magazines - and Get Published" 2009 | ISBN: 1845282809 | 197 pages | PDF | 1 MbWriting short stories is both a science and an art. You need a certain amount of skill but you will increase your chances by studying your market and learning what magazine editors are looking for. It is not always obvious. "How to Write Short Stories" will take you as a would-be writer through the tricks of the trade by: helping you discover what the different magazines are looking for and how to think up ideas to suit; demonstrating how you can write different slants, such as twist in the tales and feel-good stories; and, advising on how you can win fiction competitions. "How To Write Short Stories" is packed with tips, quotes and inside angles from magazine editors and relevant experts.
Timothy McCorkell wrote a new blog post: My Published Short Stories Are Now
2009-01-24 04:47:00 Timothy McCorkell wrote a new blog post: My Published Short Stories Are Now Free To Read I started a group on Journalspace where all of my short stories can be read for free. I put them on the group page because I just can't figure out how the embeded code works on the regular page. So, this is the link to the group page where anyone can read, even if they're ...
Timothy McCorkell created the group My Published Short Stories
2009-01-20 03:47:00 Timothy McCorkell created the group My Published Short Stories
Timothy McCorkell wrote a new blog post: Welcome To "Free Short Stories."
2009-01-20 03:27:00 Timothy McCorkell wrote a new blog post: Welcome To "Free Short Stories." <b>Tiffany Stone (The Story)</b><br>Tiffa-ny Stone's presence in this story is fictional, but I asked the Hollywood journalist to let me write her into the story to give it continuity. Otherwise, everything else is true.<br><a href="http://www.associatedcont-ent.com/article/928319/tiffany_-stone_the_story.html">http:/-/www.associatedcontent.comartic-le/928319/tiffany_stone_the_sto-ry.html</a><img border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/-wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC-/bT*xJmx*PTEyMzI*MTI5MzkyNTMmcH-Q9MTIzMjQxMjk3MTc5MCZwPTQxMTg2M-SZkPSZnPTEmdD*mbz*zMzJlNDM2MGFk-OGE*ZjBkYmUzNTcwNTU3YjkyNGQ3YQ=-=.gif" />
Best American Short Stories 2008
2009-01-19 12:20:00 The Best American Short Stories 2008Editor..Salman RushdieSeries Editor..Heidi Pitlor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.Meh.Disappointing.And then some.I struggled to finish all the stories in this volume selected by guest editor Salman Rushdie.Nothing stood out.One story bore me.Steven Millhauser's 29 page diary like marathon failed to capture my interest.In the contributors notes at the back he writes of the origin.."an idle thought,of no particular interest in itself".Unfortunately the same could be said of this piece.Rushdie notes in his introduction that many short stories today have "that flat polished sameness of tone".Unhappily there are many examples of this within this tome.What Rushdie says he "expected and perhaps feared:a widespread humorless bloodless competence" pervades these pages.None are to my mind particularly strong or original.Kate Chases effort reminds me of Margaret Atwoods HandMaid's Tale while the characters in Allegra Goodman's "Closely Held...
By: porcelain-monkey
Hello Saferide - More modern short stories from Hello Saferide (Razzia Reco
2008-10-23 12:12:00 1. I Wonder Who Is Like This One2. 20083. Overall4. Lund5. X Telling Me About The Loss Of Something Dear,At Age 166. Middleclass7. Parenting Never Ends8. Anna9. 25 Days10. Sancho Panza11. Travelling With HS12. Arjeploghttp://www.myspace.com/-saferide
Friday Flash Fiction: Fracture
2008-05-16 13:15:00 As some readers may have gathered my confidence has taken a bit of a knock of late. A somewhat annoying turn of events following on the heels of stories such as Faraway, Pixies and Territory, that I am quite pleased with. Then my confidence ding happened and out came Devil Eyes, that seemed too trite, ...
No One Believes Me part 10: the raze
2008-05-06 11:27:00 click here for previous chapter - part 9: the escape Now that the sun had completely gone down, Jake?s only light was coming from the moon. Praises be that the moon was full or he would have been in a real bind. He had no flashlight, didn?t have his rifle, he was in a real pickle ...
no one believes me part 10
2008-05-05 08:54:00 Now that the sun had completely gone down, Jake?s only light was coming from the moon. Praises be that the moon was full or he would have been in a real bind. He had no flashlight, didn?t have his rifle, he was in a real pickle and nervously made his way back to his camp. ...
No One Believes Me: Part 9 - the escape
2008-05-04 08:07:00 click here for previous chapter - part 8: no freaken way Chapter 9: The escape Jake found himself running as fast as he could possibly push himself to go and it still did not seem fast enough. Once what he had seen had finally sunk in, Jake was able to compose himself. He felt a little awkward ...
No One Believes Me: Part 8 - no freaken way
2008-05-03 19:46:00 click here for previous chapter - part 7: questions ?You have got to be kidding me, Jake exclaimed. ?This all seems so bloody real. I have never had such a vivid dream.? He stared at Pemfro and leaning up from his makeshift sleeping area, Jake motioned for the alien to pass him over some of ...
No One Believes Me: Part 9 - the escape
2008-05-03 08:07:00 no one believes me: part 8 - no freaken way Chapter 9: The escape Jake found himself running as fast as he could possibly push himself to go and it still did not seem fast enough. Once what he had seen had finally sunk in, Jake was able to compose himself. He felt a little awkward at ...
No One Believes Me: Part 9 - the escape
2008-05-03 08:07:00 no one believes me: part 8 - no freaken way Chapter 9: The escape Jake found himself running as fast as he could possibly push himself to go and it still did not seem fast enough. Once what he had seen had finally sunk in, Jake was able to compose himself. He felt a little awkward at ...
No One Believes Me: Part 8 - No Freaken Way
2008-05-03 05:46:00 no one believes me: part 7 - Questions ?You have got to be kidding me, Jake exclaimed. ?This all seems so bloody real. I have never had such a vivid dream.? He stared at Pemfro and leaning up from his makeshift sleeping area, Jake motioned for the alien to pass him over some of the bacon ...
No One Believes Me: Part 8 - No Freaken Way
2008-05-03 05:46:00 no one believes me: part 7 - Questions ?You have got to be kidding me, Jake exclaimed. ?This all seems so bloody real. I have never had such a vivid dream.? He stared at Pemfro and leaning up from his makeshift sleeping area, Jake motioned for the alien to pass him over some of the bacon ...
No One Believes me: Part 7 - Questions
2008-05-02 06:07:00 No one believes me - part 6 Jake stared at Pemfro wrapped in the soaked t-shirt, glowing a faint bluish grey and perhaps even pulsating when he found him self going over everything that had just happened. While he started a small campfire, he thought about how it had all began. He had seen a streak ...
No One Believes me: Part 7 - Questions
2008-05-02 06:07:00 No one believes me - part 6 Jake stared at Pemfro wrapped in the soaked t-shirt, glowing a faint bluish grey and perhaps even pulsating when he found him self going over everything that had just happened. While he started a small campfire, he thought about how it had all began. He had seen a streak ...
No One Believes me: Part 7 - Questions
2008-05-02 06:07:00 click here for previous chapter - part 6: tranference Jake stared at Pemfro wrapped in the soaked t-shirt, glowing a faint bluish grey and perhaps even pulsating when he found him self going over everything that had just happened. While he started a small campfire, he thought about how it had all began. He had seen ...
No One Believes Me: Part 6 - Transference
2008-05-01 08:40:00 No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor Jake wasn?t looking at Pemfro?s ship any longer. He was looking at some sort of vortex and he could clearly see streams of activity flashing through them. He imagined what he was looking at was pretty similar to a waterfall that poured down the side of a mountain ...
No One Believes Me: Part 6 - Transference
2008-05-01 08:40:00 No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor Jake wasn?t looking at Pemfro?s ship any longer. He was looking at some sort of vortex and he could clearly see streams of activity flashing through them. He imagined what he was looking at was pretty similar to a waterfall that poured down the side of a mountain ...
No One Believes Me: Part 6 - Transference
2008-05-01 08:40:00 No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor Jake wasn?t looking at Pemfro?s ship any longer. He was looking at some sort of vortex and he could clearly see streams of activity flashing through them. He imagined what he was looking at was pretty similar to a waterfall that poured down the side of a mountain ...
No One Believes Me: Part 6 - Transference
2008-05-01 08:40:00 No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor Jake wasn?t looking at Pemfro?s ship any longer. He was looking at some sort of vortex and he could clearly see streams of activity flashing through them. He imagined what he was looking at was pretty similar to a waterfall that poured down the side of a mountain ...
No One Believes Me - Part 5 - Profor
2008-05-01 05:59:00 No One Believes Me - Part 4 - the Operation Pemfro could not believe what was happening. His ship was out of control and a crash was inevitable. He wasn?t about to panic, he was trained for situations like this; although for some reason he found himself reminding himself that he was trained. Pemfro came from ...
No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor
2008-05-01 05:59:00 No One Believes Me - Part 4 - the Operation Pemfro could not believe what was happening. His ship was out of control and a crash was inevitable. He wasn?t about to panic, he was trained for situations like this; although for some reason he found himself reminding himself that he was trained. Pemfro came from ...
No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor
2008-05-01 05:59:00 No One Believes Me - Part 4 - the Operation Pemfro could not believe what was happening. His ship was out of control and a crash was inevitable. He wasn?t about to panic, he was trained for situations like this; although for some reason he found himself reminding himself that he was trained. Pemfro came from ...
No One Believes Me: Part 5 - Profor
2008-05-01 05:59:00 No One Believes Me - Part 4 - the Operation Pemfro could not believe what was happening. His ship was out of control and a crash was inevitable. He wasn?t about to panic, he was trained for situations like this; although for some reason he found himself reminding himself that he was trained. Pemfro came from ...
No One Believes Me: Part 4 - The Operation
2008-04-30 13:49:00 No One Believes Me: Part 3 - Pemfro Jake knew he had his work cut out for him. He remembered back to when Pemfro had mind melded with him. That?s what Jake was calling it now. He did after all consider himself a Trekki and had enjoyed countless hours of several of the Star Trek ...
No One Believes Me: Part 4 - The Operation
2008-04-30 13:49:00 No One Believes Me: Part 3 - Pemfro Jake knew he had his work cut out for him. He remembered back to when Pemfro had mind melded with him. That?s what Jake was calling it now. He did after all consider himself a Trekki and had enjoyed countless hours of several of the Star Trek ...
No One Believes Me: Part 4 - The Operation
2008-04-30 13:49:00 No One Believes Me: Part 3 - Pemfro Jake knew he had his work cut out for him. He remembered back to when Pemfro had mind melded with him. That?s what Jake was calling it now. He did after all consider himself a Trekki and had enjoyed countless hours of several of the Star Trek ...
No One Believes Me: Part 4 - The Operation
2008-04-30 13:49:00 click here for previous chapter: Part 3 - Pemfro Jake knew he had his work cut out for him. He remembered back to when Pemfro had mind melded with him. That?s what Jake was calling it now. He did after all consider himself a Trekki and had enjoyed countless hours of several of the Star ...
No One Believes Me? Pemfro
2008-04-25 02:33:00 Here is part three of the story I am writing for my son. You can find part two here. Froggy told me that it was time for me to put a title on it, so I have and you can see thats its called No One Believes Me. Clearly the story is moving along in ...
the next few paragraphs? crash site
2008-04-24 02:22:00 I wrote this story for my son and started it a while back. it wasnt titled and I just had called that the first 6 paragraphs. Here is the continuation of that story and its not finished, and also its not yet named hehehe. here is the link to part one of you want ...
This Train Ride..
2008-04-22 01:00:00 I had to go to Alberta to present at a conference there. I really didn?t want to go, but it was a work obligation and I couldn?t get out of it. I was to be gone for four days and it had to be over a weekend, which I wasn?t too impressed by. My plane ...
How and Where to Publish Your Short Stories
2008-04-15 00:00:00 One reader asks: ?What advice would you give to someone who has bags of passion and loves life and just happens to have lots of stories and would like to know how to publish or where to publish?? I?m really glad this reader writes from the heart. A short story which ...
The 25th Floor
2008-04-11 05:34:00 Maggie stepped out of the elevator and onto the 25th floor. She looked for training room 2. How the hell am I supposed to find it? She was talking to herself. It was unnervingly quiet in the hallway. There was not even a guard around. Isn’t there supposed to be a guard on duty on ...
Friday Flash Fiction: Crushed
2008-03-21 18:42:00 Due to a very manic week I don’t have a proper entry - although this may change during the workshop tomorrow - and so I’m posting a little bit of back story to The Woodsman that has most likely been dropped for pace reasons. Hopefully it’s enjoyable. If you missed out on my random drabble from ...
Autumn by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, A Short Story
2008-03-20 00:50:00 AUTUMN By Ryunosuke Akutagawa (A SHORT STORY), Translated by Eiji Ukai and Eric S. Bell. Nobu-ko was a very beautiful and talented young woman. She had received an excellent schooling, and at quite an early age had entered a woman's university. Even before her graduation she had completed over a two-hundred-page autobiographical novel, which was much talked about and praised by...
By: Asiaing.com
that boarded up old house
2008-03-19 09:47:00 I was about seven years old I guess and it was summer vacation. We would wake up early and go outside, where we would play all day only coming back home for food or drink as we needed it. I played with my older sister all the time, and sort of tagged along where ever ...
Short Stories Live Forever ? It?s Only the Writers Who Die Slow, Agonizing
2008-03-13 16:59:00 A week ago, there was this brief posting about the validity of the short story on Mediabistro’s Galleycat which I found rather disturbing. I’m not really sure what I found more disturbing: the assertation from the complainers that the short story is dead because it’s no longer commercially viable or Ron Hogan’s surly ...
Houston Calls - A Collection of Short Stories (2005)
2008-03-11 20:22:00 1. "Sunrise Goodbyes"2. "Exit, Emergency"3. "Bob And Bonnie"4. "Elephant And Castle"5. "Amtrak Is For Lovers"6. "High Rise"7. "One More Won't Hurt"8. "Bottle Of Red, Bottle Of Spite"9. "A Line In The Sand"10. "A Pen And A Piece Of Mind"11. "The Better Part Of Valor"Genre: Pop Punk, IndieWebsite: Myspace DOWNLOAD LINK IN COMMENTS
By: sEckwd
Short Stories
2008-02-25 14:44:00 Today I would like to talk about a site which offers short stories and the possibility for readers to contribute to them. You can have your say by visiting the Weekly Shorts section and suggesting the name, gender and genre of a 1000 word story that will be written on the site. If your contribution will be used in the story, then you will receive a link to your website at the end of it. I think it is a fun idea and I wonder how come more people didn?t think about it earlier. A story from the website that I enjoyed is called The Fisherman?s Daughter and it is a story about love, romance and friendship. I encourage you to visit the site if you enjoy reading just like I do.
Friday Flash Fiction: The Woodsman (Teaser)
2008-02-22 17:59:00 Somewhat predictably it’s been impossible this week to set aside time to write any Flash Fiction however I did, by chance, notice that the opening sequence of The Woodsman was exactly 1000 words long [due to a last minute edit it is now shorter]. Clearly it was a sign. And so here’s the opening of The ...
Short Stories, Franz Kafka, ?In the Penal Settlement?, and ?The Giant Mole?
2008-02-15 22:32:00 In the Penal Settlement is the first in the series of stories in this collection that considers more than one character in any depth. The explorer, the officer, the soldier and the condemned all undergo a transformation as the story unfolds; told in third person, limited to the explorer, the story evolves as the penal ...
The Burrow and Investigations of a Dog, Short Stories by Franz Kafka
2008-02-14 21:28:00 Kafka continues the anthropomorphic metaphor to consider the life of a solitary mammalian predator; a predator that is large enough to consider a rat easy pray. The character begins to describe, from the first person point of view, his life. He paints a finely detailed picture of underground dwelling, the voice of the narrator is ...
A Selection Of Famous Short Stories
2008-02-10 12:01:00 Recently I was in mood to read some famous short stories.I want to improve my fictional writing skills so I read a lot of short stories to get a feel of the genre.It enhances your creativity and also helps in competitive examinations with writing sections like the GRE or GMAT.So here is the collection I found."An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (online text)"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury (online text)"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver (online text)"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov (online text) or available online free in streaming video."The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (online text)"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell (online text)"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner (online text)"We Can Get Them for You Wholesale" by Neil Gaiman (online text)"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol (online text — translation)"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (online text)"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry (online text)"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst (online text)"T...
By: prochow
Writing Short Stories
2008-02-05 00:35:00 Here is video found on you tube, the authors gives the tips on writing short stories.Author Ziv Navoth explains the 5 techniques he used to write Nanotales, a collection of 83 short stories which have just been published. Visit http://www.nanotales.net for more info and more videos.He says in the video, How to write stories, that was the question that bothered him, when he tried to write short stories, but could not. Eventually he found out five steps to get out a story out of one. The five step he explains are as follows1. The first step about writing the stories he says is to forget everything about learning. Seems much of a Zen approach to me and very effective too. He says not to listen to other people's advice (what about this advice? :) ) other people have different experience than one. One has to go with what works for one.I like the first advice pretty much. It reflects the uniqueness of each individuals being environment and nature. Great first point Ziv Navoth!2. Second p...
How To Write Short Stories
2008-02-04 08:09:00 Some of the best fictional stories are short stories. A short story is a usually a fictional story or it could be otherwise, but it is short enough to be read in one sitting, hence the name “short story”. The thing about short stories is that because they are short you do not have too much time to introduce your characters and to set up the scenes. The idea is to keep it fairly simple and make it fairly fast paced.When writing short stories, keep the number of characters in your story to a minimum. If you spend all your time introducing characters, your reader may lose interest and you may run out of time for all the action of your story. Make sure that all the characters you include are necessary to your story.Before you start writing it is a good idea to briefly plan out your story. Make a list of possible characters and describe briefly what you want to happen in your story. In your plan you should have an introduction paragraph that sets the scene and introduces your charact...
By: prochow
The Best American Short Stories 2007
2008-01-28 01:40:00 The Best American Short Stories 2007.Houghton Mifflin Company.398 pages.Edited by Stephen King.After 2006's underwhelming offering I approached this edition with some trepidation.I was moderately surprised.There was no gloomy stench of death similar to that which hung over its predecessor.Saying that however,death does feature in several of the stories such as "The Wake","Findings and Impressions" and "Sans Farine".But its not the fundamental encompassing preoccupation of these works."Death" with a small 'd'.Stephen King notes in his introduction as editor that if the stories have anything in common .."its that sense of emotional involvement".Im not sure how emotionally involving the majority of the stories are given that two weeks have passed and Im struggling to recall the details of many.A few stuck in my mind such as the already noted "The Wake" and "L DeBard and Aliette:A Love Story.As this years editor was Stephen King I expected some off beat unusual choices but nothing re...
By: porcelain-monkey
Rumble: New Short Stories
2008-01-27 17:49:00 My friend "E" and I edited some of the previously published rumbles written by Cyprien, Enrico and herself into eBook short stories. By coincidence, all stories are about life in Sudan, but mostly about life as an aid worker. Enjoy!This Man... (by "E" herself)Murphy's Law in Sudan (by Enrico Pausilli)How Deep Is the Deep Field? (by Enrico Pausilli)The Pit Latrine? (by Enrico Pausilli)Twenty-Four Hours in Aweil (by Cyprien Hiniolwa)The Theory of Relativity (by Enrico Pausilli)The Forces of Nature (by Enrico Pausilli)The Perfect Balance (by Enrico Pausilli)The Driver's License (by Enrico Pausilli)Remember you can find a introduction and summary of each story in the eBook in the Readers' Digest.Thanks again for all the good work, E!Picture courtesy Ulrik Pedersen. |
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