12shortstories.com Website Review

If you’re looking for a deadline, look no more, you have just found twelve. 12 Short Stories is a writing challenge to help you conquer the blank page, a place to kick procrastination bu*t and to create a body of work by writing one short story per month. A short story is a perfect place to practice and to hone your craft. We all have strengths and weaknesses as writers. Some writers excel at dialogue but su*k at setting and description or their plots rock, but their characters are flat and predictable. A short story offers us the opportunity to improve our weaknesses and have fun with our strengths. When we write novels, we need to keep our wits about us. We need 60 coherent scenes, in the correct order that shows us the story. With a Every writer needs to practice and a daily prompt is great, but when you turn that prompt into a short story you have something to enter, publish or stick up on the fridge. Prompts tend to remain in our notebooks; short stories become something you can use. Don’t stop Writing a novel is as challenging as it is thrilling. There are times when the words flow and the story works, then there are times when Novels have space, short stories don’t. If you overwrite, this is a great way to shorten and strengthen your writing. When you must count, They give you deadlines: There are hundreds, if not thousands of short story competitions. Use them to work towards your goals and deadlines. When we write novels, they can take months or even years. Short stories offer an opportunity to set short-term goals to keep us motivated and invigorated for the long-term goal achievement. Writing short stories is a great way of getting to know your characters. Put them into a situation that you haven’t thought of before or that isn’t included in your book and see what they get up to. Or write that important event in their childhood that shaped them and changed their lives. You won’t necessarily use it, but it’s a great way to layer and explore a character.