365 Short Stories (scenario)—Week Forty
The scenario, a likely sequence of events, reveals the strengths and weaknesses of characters that touch our hearts and keep us reading.
Sydney Avey
Dynamic Woman — Changing Times
365 short stories
365 Short Stories (scenes)—Week Thirty-Nine
Scenes are the building blocks of stories. Favorite scenes stay with you, even when you’ve forgotten the title, author and plot of a story.
365 Short Stories (Artful)—Week Thirty-Eight
Artful writing employs creative skill in clever, crafty or cunning ways. There is an art to arranging words in a paragraph and paragraphs on a page so they appeal at once to the eye and the ear.
365 Short Stories (Y.A.)—Week Thirty-Seven
Sis and I are going to do One Teen Story Boot Camp later this month, so I decided to explore the Y.A. (Young Adult) category to prepare. Free Y.A. stories are hard to come by. What characterizes Y.A.? A teenage protagonist. Who writes Y.A.? Established writers and budding teenage novelists. Who reads Y.A.? The target audience is young people, 12-18, but well written Y.A. transcends age and is enjoyed by all.
365 Short Stories (writing lesson)—Week Thirty-Six
A brief writing lesson prefaces each story in The Paris Review’s collection of twenty contemporary short stories chosen from their archives by masters of the genre. Here are some selections from “Object Lessons, The Art of The Short Story.”
365 Short Stories (Bon Mot)—Week Thirty-Five
I love a bon mot, a witty saying or a good turn of phrase. I’m on the lookout for them in this week’s stories.
