HOW NOT TO OPEN A SHORT STORY
Reblogged from Fantasy Author's Handbook:
I generally don’t like this kind of negative approach: lists of what not to do. I prefer to encourage you to do things, not discourage you from doing things, but back to the subject of short stories, I can’t help but point out some very common pitfalls that I’ve seen over and over again for years—decades, actually. So here goes, in no particular order, half a dozen things you should never do in the first page of a short story:
This is a really excellent post on how to begin short stories. I think it's good advice to follow for just about any kind of writing.
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