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Tips for Writing Short Stories

1. Buy a pen or a pen of those paunchy design that are so fashionable. Purchase, also a next-generation computer applications more reliable and applicable.

Then, when you have all this, drop the pen and the pen in the pack and the computer in the box, do not ever get them or unpack, go into the streets, mingle with people, look closely and when something or someone that interests you, stop and let your imagination fill in all questions and unknowns that will arise.

Ah, the pen, the pen and computer, there’s still time to return them if you want.

2. In the Short Story writing is required to take into account and never forget you have to write stories and, furthermore, should be short, fundamental.

3. Before you sign up for a creative writing workshop tries to talk to the teacher or professor and, looking into her eyes, ask if you’ve read “The interpretation of the designs” Artemidorus of Ephesus, “The Prepónticas” of Atarsio and “Wanderings and visions of Gracian Bernaldo, if you answered “yes” and without blinking, you have two very clear options: leave without pedantry more because they exceed or stay peacefully because fiction is your thing.

Ah, if answered negatively the problem is more serious, because, really, who does not read those books sometime in your life?

4. If you have an idea about something to write, first, do not tell it to anyone, even yourself, and, second, and most importantly, let it express itself.

5. There will be times you think that writing is a total nonsense, I totally agree. Read the rest of this entry »