Writing great short stories /
Schaum's quick guide to writing great short stories
Margaret Lucke
- New York: McGraw-Hill; 1999
- 160 p.
Introduction - what is a short story and where does a writer find one?; Characters - how to create people who live and breathe on the page; conflict - how to devise a story that readers won At want to put down; plot and structure - how to devise a story and keep it moving forward; setting and atmosphere - how to bring readers into a vivid fictional world; narrative voice - how to develop an individual voice as a writer.