Archive for the 'Short Stories' Category

Quite often I get readers of this blog leaving questions in the comments section. That is great and I appreciate the feedback and try to help people with their writing problems.
Occasionally I also get readers leaving ideas from which I can benefit too. This is also great. Louise was one such reader today. Here is [...]

A new phenomenon sweeping the internet is Twitter.
Okay - I’ll come clean, I’m new to Twitter and I’m not really sure how effective it will be in relation to my blogging, writing and the way in which I do things. I’ve only been on it a few weeks now, but already I find it great [...]

It has been far too long since my last set of short story starters was published here. Entries in this series of articles have proved very popular with my readers for several years now.
Use them
I invite you to look through this latest list of short story starters. If anything grabs your imagination, run with it. [...]

Yesterday I wrote about an article I had published in a magazine recently. I forgot to tell you about another piece of writing success I had a few weeks ago.
As regular readers would know, I am currently in the middle of my Master of Arts in Creative Writing course. One of the units I am [...]

One of the writing assignments I have to complete by the end of this semester is to write two short stories.
No sweat, I thought.
Then I read the conditions. The total word count must be about 5,000 words. Again, not a problem because I’ve written over 9,000 words in the last five days.
The lecturer has decreed [...]