 Short Stories: May 06, 2020 Issue [#10151] |
This week: Golden Silence Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Golden Silence
They say silence is golden, but wouldn't you rather just say what you want?
Some people will try and tell you that silence is golden. That might be true in some rare occasions, but it's generally better to speak to one another. Or, write. In dialogue. Because if no one wants to listen to you, you can talk to yourself. Or you can write stories entirely in dialogue. As you see in "The Dialogue 500" , silence would lose. So, don't be silent.
No matter how short or long your short story is going to be, you have to make sure to start with a compelling beginning that draws your reader in from the first couple of lines. You don't have forever.
The middle of a short story can be a little descriptive, but you also have to keep the story going and ideally you add peril or raise the stakes before you set up the denouement.
In the falling action, when the end is in sight, you can slow down a little and let the reader put all the pieces together that you left as a mystery to get the story started.
Finishing a story in a satisfactory way is hard. Sometimes, you want to have an open ending because you feel that this is how you want to tell the story. But make sure the open ending is not actually cutting off the climax before it happens. Leaving the reader behind at the moment of hightest tension works for chapters or novel endings where a second novel is planned. For a short story to work, it has to end after the moment of hightest tension has been resolved in some way.
Even when all you do is talk it out as in the Dialogue 500. |
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