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Short Stories: May 06, 2020 Issue [#10151]




 This week: Golden Silence
  Edited by: Annette Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

Hello readers and writers of short stories, I am Annette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for today.


Letter from the editor

Golden Silence


They say silence is golden, but wouldn't you rather just say what you want?


Some people will try and tell you that silence is golden. That might be true in some rare occasions, but it's generally better to speak to one another. Or, write. In dialogue. Because if no one wants to listen to you, you can talk to yourself. Or you can write stories entirely in dialogue. As you see in "The Dialogue 500" Open in new Window., silence would lose. So, don't be silent.

No matter how short or long your short story is going to be, you have to make sure to start with a compelling beginning that draws your reader in from the first couple of lines. You don't have forever.

The middle of a short story can be a little descriptive, but you also have to keep the story going and ideally you add peril or raise the stakes before you set up the denouement.

In the falling action, when the end is in sight, you can slow down a little and let the reader put all the pieces together that you left as a mystery to get the story started.

Finishing a story in a satisfactory way is hard. Sometimes, you want to have an open ending because you feel that this is how you want to tell the story. But make sure the open ending is not actually cutting off the climax before it happens. Leaving the reader behind at the moment of hightest tension works for chapters or novel endings where a second novel is planned. For a short story to work, it has to end after the moment of hightest tension has been resolved in some way.

Even when all you do is talk it out as in the Dialogue 500.


Editor's Picks

 Conversations Open in new Window. (E)
Snowed in with a cat and a dog.
#2220281 by Zehzeh Author IconMail Icon

 Talking to Myself Open in new Window. (E)
Dialogue 500 - April 2020
#2220205 by NormaJean AKA CHEER QUEEN Author IconMail Icon

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#2220201 by Not Available.

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#2219276 by Not Available.

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#2219188 by Not Available.

 
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A Scolding in the Snow Open in new Window. (E)
Anthony returns, once again antagonizing his stressed out Mummy. A Dialogue 500 Entry.
#2219035 by lezismore-moreislez Author IconMail Icon

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Snowed In Open in new Window. (13+)
Stuck alone in the cabin. Dialogue 500 Contest - Dialogue Only, 500 words, max.
#2218088 by 👀intu the Darkness Author IconMail Icon

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#2218081 by Not Available.

 
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Alone Open in new Window. (13+)
Contest entry: Dialog only. Snowed in, cabin fever, ALONE.
#2218080 by D. Reed Whittaker Author IconMail Icon

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The Dialogue 500 Open in new Window. (18+)
Dialogues of 500 words or less.
#941862 by W.D.Wilcox Author IconMail Icon

 
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