How to Write a Short Story
How to Write a Short Story

Author: N A Turner

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-28

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781077386693

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You always wanted to write short stories but you have no idea where to begin.Do you want to become better at writing fiction?Perhaps you find it hard to come up with ideas for a story or to devise a plot. Maybe you have difficulty developing your own style or is your dialogue rusty.N.A. Turner is here to help you navigate the land of short story writing from outlining your story to attracting readers. Every aspiring writer dreams of people reading his or her work. Short story writing is a way of both developing your writing style and to introduce your talent to potential readers. At the start of their career, the likes of Stephen King and Charles Bukowski made a name for themselves by writing and publishing short stories.Learn more about N.A. Turner's writing tips based on his experience and research.This guide teaches you: - How to write well-structured short stories- How to determine your theme- How to plot your story- How to create engaging, interesting characters- How to build a fictional world- How to write scenes and clear dialogue- How to get to that first draft and edit your story- How to publish your short stories in the current market- And much moreThis guidebook will show you a step-by-step process to successfully write and publish short stories. From developing an idea to attracting readers online. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide is all you need to get started.

Teaching Literary Elements With Short Stories
Teaching Literary Elements With Short Stories

Author: Tara McCarthy

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780439098434

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Ready-to-use, high interest stories with mini-lessons and activities that help students understand literary elements and use them effectively in their writing.

The Elements of Story
The Elements of Story

Author: Francis Flaherty

Publisher: Harper

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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In the spirit of "The Elements of Style," this nonfiction writing guide by a "New York Times" editor presents 50 secrets of successful narratives.

The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi

Author: O. Henry

Publisher: Amila Jay

Published: 2021-12-22

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 3986779213

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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

Elements of Story Writing
Elements of Story Writing

Author: JoAnn Jackovino

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781500792947

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When writing a story, there are a number of Story Writing Elements that must be understood and practiced in order to create a story of interest and quality. These story writing elements are: Genre, Theme, Setting, Characterization, Dialogue, Plot, Point of View, Voice, Imagery, Story Synopsis/Blurb, Story Title, and Story Illustrations. Elements of Story Writing explains and teaches the story writing elements listed above and also includes worksheet pages, quiz sections, literary definitions, and a section for note taking. This book is both a resource book for teachers, and a student workbook. It has been written to be used for students in elementary school through high school.

Elements of Fiction
Elements of Fiction

Author: Walter Mosley

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 080214764X

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The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a “compact but insight-rich” guide to fiction writing (Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. For writers who want to approach the genius of Melville, Dickens, or Twain, The Elements of Fiction is a must-read. Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction’s most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time.

For the Time Being
For the Time Being

Author: Annie Dillard

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-05-19

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0307477665

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National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. "Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News

Surviving Death
Surviving Death

Author: Sarah Gribble

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780988449794

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A prophecy. A rebellion. A young woman thrust to the forefront. Welcome to the afterlife.Tilly's death isn't going very well. She's been assigned the last job anyone wants: escorting souls to Hell. Worse, the afterlife is run on an automated system of justice based on arbitrary rules and three-strike punishments, and despite her best intentions, her strikes are running out.One more screw up and she'll be damned for all eternity. Just like her mother. Furious at the ridiculous rules in the afterlife, Tilly risks her own damnation in a search for justice. She sets out on a quest through Heaven and Hell-one that makes her the accidental face of a rebellion and leads her to an ultimate showdown with Lucifer and Death himself.Her mother's soul-and the souls of mankind-depend on her.