Maybe I Don’t Want To Be A Novelist8/13/2022 Lately, I’ve been writing short stories. To be fair, I’ve been writing them for as long as I have use of memory, but I began taking this format seriously about a year and a half ago. My journey was, in the beginning, rough. I wrote stories about the characters of my ongoing WIP at the time and tried to venture in the genres I was already familiar with. I’ve always written for myself, but then I was starting to understand my writing. I lost a couple of competitions, I worked with writing buddies. I discovered my strong points and worked through the weak ones. I revise and ask for feedback, I learn, I enjoy challenging myself to grow through this format. Flash forward and I’m almost done with my first short story collection, and I’ve written a handful of pieces for Lit Mags.
So, why do I feel like it’s not enough?
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World building in Short Stories6/26/2022 We normally think of world building as in pages upon pages in notion detailing history, politics, and economics of a sci-fi world or having your own Wikipedia in World Anvil of this high-fantasy kingdom that rivals Tolkien’s.
However when we get into the meat of the story, world building isn’t quite as straightforward. Sure, in novels, you can have a beautiful map before the first chapter or use the prologue to narrate a creation-myth and the power dynamics of the land but, in short stories, “you just need to drop the readers straight into the established world, without needing to explain everything about it,” (Samantha Todd). Which sounds scary, not going to lie, because how can we make sure the reader doesn’t get lost between all this lore? Well, the simple answer is that you curate your world around the protagonist and the story you’re telling. Categories
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