How to Write Short Stories That Sell: Creating Short Fiction for the Magazine Markets

If you want to write fiction, then short stories are a great place to start. This book will help you to find ideas and teach you all the essential elements of short story writing. It covers plot and structure, conflict, dialogue, characterisation, settings, description, tense, viewpoint, flashback, and more. You'll also learn about one of the most important steps in the writing process: editing. How to Write Short Stories That Sell includes writing and editing exercises, and short story examples. It shows you how to increase your chances of selling your work by identifying the right story markets, and explains the correct way to submit your work to a magazine editor. Jane Bettany is a freelance writer, publisher and creative writing teacher with more than twenty years experience of writing fiction. Her stories and non-fiction articles have appeared in women's magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is a qualified teacher.

Author: Jane Bettany
Publisher: Dormouse Press
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9780957670433
ISBN10: 0957670435
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General
- Crafts & Hobbies | Reference
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals

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