 Short Stories: April 08, 2020 Issue [#10114] |
This week: Bittersweet Reads Edited by: Gaby  
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Entertaining contests with limitations and restrictions can be challenging at times. The word count limit vs. the subject itself. Always tough. Have you written enough to make sense? Did you include too much of one thing and not enough of what might be more important? Will people understand it? Will they like it?
For a 1000 word count story you might sweat a lot. It’ll pay off in the end but it can be hard work. Most of us want to elaborate on it down the road, change the ending rather than leave it with a cliffhanger at the end. Most times we leave it as is, make a few adjustments and let it sit there waiting for reviews.
That’s fine. That’s the practice version of your writing. It’s there to remind you of things you wanted to do and change but haven’t. Reading other people’s stories is enjoyable and can be quite rewarding as well as relaxing. It’s the work of someone else, their own challenges so we share our thoughts with them. We give them that push to keep going, letting them know that the work did pay off, might make a few suggestions, and the loop keeps going.
In reality, how satisfying are short stories really? How short is too short and when is a short story too long?
I have a rather small collection of short story books because quite frankly I don’t enjoy them. I tried. They’re simply too short for my taste. Just when I get into the read, the end inches closer and I’m left with a feeling of loss. An emptiness that cannot be filler with another story that’s just as short. That’s why my bookshelves are packed with regular books, the larger the better. My personal preference when it comes to reading. Writing, however, I will most likely leave you with that cliffhanger that I want to change down the road and I’d hope to elaborate more on it at some further point. Never happens because once written, it’s as if those characters are stuck in time in one particular place and that’s it.
Practice makes perfect so I’ve been teaching myself to write a long short story by using the same characters continuously in different scenarios in hopes to avoid all the mentioned above. It’s a work in progress.
Do you have ways of avoiding the cliffhanger syndrome or do you prefer writing short stories in general?
‘Til next time!
~ Gaby 
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