HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY

STEPS Nothing can help you “learn” how to write a good short story better than reading good short stories. Gather ideas for your story Start with basics of a short story. Introduction (Introduces characters, setting, time, etc.)  Initiating Action (The point of a story that starts the rising action)  Rising Action (Events leading up to the climax/turning point)  Climax (The most intense point of the story/the turning point of the story)  Falling Action (your story begins to conclude)  Resolution/Conclusion   Find inspiration from real people.  Know your characters.  Write a list, titled with the character's name, and write all the attributes you can think of, from their position in the orchestra to their favorite color.   Make sure your characters personalities are not perfect. In real life, nobody is perfect. 

Limit the breadth of your story. Decide who will tell the story. Organize your thoughts.  Start writing. Come out swinging.  Keep writing. Let the story "write itself.“ Revise and edit Get some second opinions. Incorporate whatever edits, revisions, and suggestions you feel are valid. Don't give up.  to write a story you need to decide on the topic you want to write about. Make sure that you have essential characters Make sure you are able to set the story in a place that the reader can find believable. Start of setting the basics of the story. (Beginning) (ONLY IF YOU ARE WRITING A SERIES OF BOOKS) make sure, the ending makes the reader want to read the next story. 

An example Dave and the Six Chicken Buna Curries I have the feeling that the punch line of this story will not be what you anticipate. Dave was one of my many ex-drinking companions; he was like a barrel, but shorter and wider.  Incidentally, we used to laugh at another of the company - John, because he could only manage 4 pints before slinking off home.  How times have changed, these days I never drink more that 2 pints. Back to Dave.  Dave was a diamond geezer, meaning he was a cockney, had a heart of gold, and as happens, lots of flash jewellery. What I liked most about Dave was listening to tales of his derring-do, his stories of driving - if driving is the word - a fork-lift digger. I drank with him every Sunday lunch time for about three years.  Now in those days in England, on a Sunday afternoon the pubs closed at 2:00 PM, or maybe it was 3:00 PM. Anyway, as far as drinking was concerned Dave talked so much at that when the barmaid called 'Time gentlemen please' , he had a minimum of 2 full pints on the bar. Every week I always believed he would fail, but every week he astonished me by draining both pints in about 2 minutes and this was after the full lunchtime session.

One Sunday, completely out of the blue, Dave said, 'Why don't we all go for a curry?  I know just the place' . I say again, that for 3 years the pattern had always been the same, just a Sunday lunchtime drink, a chat and then everyone home to their own Sunday dinner. Well, five of us accepted Dave's forceful invitation, and off we weaved off to the Taj Mahal Curry house.  When we arrived the waiter greeted Dave like a brother.  Next we were ushered to the top table and we all sat down.  Nothing out of the ordinary so far, but it was when the waiter brought the menus that something happened, which I will never forget; Dave said to his friend the waiter: 'Nah, nah, we don't need them menu's, just bring us 6 Chicken Bunas and 3 bottles of Blue Nun' . I was as they say, gob smacked.  Luckily, I did not mind chicken Buna curry and Blue Nun is not the worst white wine in the world.

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