Why I Wrote The Short and Long Of It

Hi, Everyone, just in case you missed this post on my publisher--JMS Books'--blog, I'd like to tell you a bit about why I wrote my new writing reference, The Short and Long Of It.

Here's the post:

Today Paul Alan Fahey stopped by to talk a bit about his new writing guide, The Short and Long of It: Expand, Adapt, and Publish Your Short Fiction, published by JMS Books and exclusively available on Kindle Select!
The Short and Long of It :

In January this year, I was asked to teach a workshop at our annual Central Coast Conference in September. After much hair pulling — my own — and thought, I came up with a topic, something I’d struggled with for years: How to expand shorter pieces like 55 Fiction, flash fiction, and short, short stories into longer publishable work — mainly as separate ebooks.

I wrote the workshop description first and then the book in February. I’ve never written anything so fast. It felt like the book was writing itself. Something I had to write and I hoped would be useful to other writers who had similar issues. ( The book is packed with examples of short fiction and should interest readers as well.)

It’s been my experience that many books on writing don’t actually delve too deeply into the writing process — warts and all. Authors don’t normally show all their messy and unruly notes, outlines, first paragraphs, or sections of first drafts with the reader. Well, maybe Hemingway, but he had to die first before this happened and his publisher released his notes and drafts.) In The Short and Long of It,, I also provide samples of my own work along with strategies and examples on how to make this transition — from short to long.

Blurb:

Do you write short fiction but long to s-t-r-e-t-c-h those tight little 55ers, flash pieces, and short stories into longer, publishable work?

Do you have binders full of short pieces with characters you’d love to flesh out? Are you dying to tell the rest of these stories?

If so, The Short and Long of It is for you!

Award-winning short fiction writer Paul Alan Fahey shows you how to expand and adapt your brief creations into longer, more satisfying stories, plays, novellas, and novels pitch perfect for publication in the e-age.

This book will help you practice expanding your short fiction. Through detailed examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to:

Adapt 55 fiction into flash fiction;
Adapt flash fiction into short stories and plays;
Adapt flash memoir into personal essays;
Write a tight logline;
Develop a story theme;
Build three-act structure; and
Develop characters and enhance backstory.

So grab a copy today and start writing longer stories tomorrow!

https://www.amazon.com/Short-Long-Exp...

Until later,

The best is yet to come.

Paul