Today, as I edit, trim, cut, and otherwise obliterate a short story I wrote that ended up to be 8,000 words, but needs to be 5,000 words, I am …

20 Tips For Writing a Captivating Short Story

Since we talked about serialised stories this week, which for me are often short stories, I thought this was a relevant post to share.

Each of these twenty tips absolutely hits home! This post has great advice for storytelling in general and I highly recommend reading it through. Just don’t do what I did and get discouraged because you don’t follow every single rule in every single story. Writing best practices exist for a reason, but sometimes, when the time is right, it’s okay to “break the rules” a bit!

And even if you made a mistake with one of your past stories, that’s okay, too. I’ve made plenty of those! We’re all still learning—that’s why this blog exists!

I really hope you’ll check out this post. I can’t wait to see the short stories you come up with!

Happy writing!
—E.J.