What are some good topics for short story writing?

Answer 1

depends on what you're writing about.

Answer 2

Hi, shestory1, my name is Hank. You've asked a really open-ended question. I could talk about it all day. You could even write a story about what I'm trying to relate to you right now.

It could easily be turned into a love story: shestory 1 meets writer on Answers... Another one is look at your monitor, imagine you are reaching to turn it off, you accidently rip off a fingernail...

Another good start for a story is to have your main character opening and passing through a door. This transition point can open your story to anything you want it to be.

If you think these topics are too light, I assure you you can turn them into the most thrilling, captivating and complex stories ever written. That part of writing is where you can shine or go pfffft. You could even write a story about how tedious creating dialogue can become.

Topics are easy to come by. What you do with the topic is your creative prerogative and purview. It's up to, you, the author. I don't know who wrote this, nor can I quote it correctly. I can paraphrase it pretty good, though.

A good writer can take a hard to grasp, difficult idea and make it seem so easy to understand that most everybody can read it and get what the idea is. At the same time a good writer can take the most bland, blase, run of the mill, insipidly boring idea and make it sound so new and interesting people will want to read the entire piece without putting it down.

If you can do that and are able to write good dialogue, you will be a successful short story writer. Putting words in character's mouths is extremely tedious for me.

What kind of writing are you thinking of? Fiction, nonfiction, essay, letter, prose or poetry--they're are all good. One plot you might come up with would be a real person (you) creating a fictional story about a writer writing an essay about a supposedly good poet who writes really bad poetry thinking he/she is writing prose.

Are you starting to get an idea of what I'm talking about?

I wish you luck shestory1. It's time to let your mind start dancing across the keyboard of your inventions.

Hank Feral

Answer 3

A good short story will create some kind of vivid imagery or emotion, not through only vocabulary and physical description, but through eliciting a reaction that parallels something the reader has felt before. Write about one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to you, and it someone can read it and feel embarrassed for you, you just wrote a killer short story.

Answer 4

i took a creative writing type and that i got here upon that the perfect suggestions come to those who wait. let the international encourage you. i also got here upon that the fashionable memories contained in the kind were those that gave the impression to be quite ordinary and in touch whimsy (like some thing inanimate is composed of existence). love doesn't look to make good short memories at the moment. attempt a very strange diary. imagine unorthodox. attempt an workout like "the diary of a tree" personify a tree. you could also attempt to make an afternoon you had right into a short tale only for practice with ingredient. get it? all i'm putting forward is be quite open minded.

Answer 5

I like to take real-life events, preferably things that have happened to me, and twist them to make them supernatural or horrific.

One example for this; one Saturday morning after I had left for work and my wife was home alone, our telephone rang. When she looked at the caller id, it said 'other handset calling.' We have one of those phones with multiple bases and handsets. When she inspected the other phone it was sitting on its base, not moved or in a place where one of the cats might have stepped on it. I took what was most likely a one time technological glith, and turned into a story about EVP where my spirit was calling because I had been in a car wreck on my way to work.

Cheers and happy writing.

Answer 6

Strong human emotions and behavioral psychology.
All great stories are based on them.
People have this habit to compare or identify themselves with story heroes. Closer description to the truth of life, better story it is.

Answer 7

write about something you know, family friends. if you base it on actual events it will be easier to write.

Answer 8

anything post-apocalyptic

Answer 9

romance...............take i deas from movies or something