How do you compose a short story step by step? List all the steps for writing a short story.?

Answer 1

Put on my favorite jammies. Brew a pot of tea. Relax in my writing room. Stare at the walls for a couple of hours. Turn on the computer. Go on-line and read silly questions. Start writing an outline. Get distracted and stare at the wall again. Delete everything I just wrote. Go back to the kitchen and make another pot of tea since the first one got cold. Try heating the old tea up in the microwave while I boil more water. Burn my tongue on the microwaved tea. Curse at the teacup. Go back to my room. Surf the net a little longer. Start another outline. Read it back to myself and delete it. Go back to the kitchen and taken the molten pot off the burner. Remove the battery from the smoke detector. Open the kitchen window to clear the smoke. Put the battery back into the smoke detector. Give up on having tea. Go back to the computer and play pong. Write non stop for a couple of hours and read back the nonsense that tumbled out. Print it out so I can crumble it up and throw it across the room like a real writer.
Wonder if I have another pot to make tea. Root around in the kitchen for another pot. Realized that was my last one. Go back to the computer and turn it off. Start again tomorrow.

Answer 2

I would think that there is no ONE right way to write a short story. You would need to probably storyboard (brainstorm) the main characters and the main plotlines and come up with some outline of what you think you want to happen. I would also recommend that you spend some time fleshing out your characters. Picking out names. Some people worry about what their characters look like. I would be more concerned with their inner life than their outer one. What good writing has are characters that act because of inner motivation. If you don't know why you're characters behave the way you do. If you don't make them have enough substance to think and to act, then that's a loss for any future audience. So maybe writing out paragraphs of character sketches for each of the main characters would be a step. The third step would probably be to draft a copy of the story itself. The fourth step would be to read the draft, make changes, edit it to suit yourself, make something presentable that you wouldn't mind showing to a friend or classmate or a person you trust. The fifth step would be handing over your work to someone else and asking for honest feedback. The sixth step would be reading or discussing their reaction and perhaps making more editorial decisions about the story. Changing what needs to be changed to make it as good as you can possibly get it. Any other steps would be to keep getting opinions and when you're confident that you've got something special then letting it go to a more professional reader, submitting it for publication, etc. But just know that the first draft is never ready to submit unedited, unproofed for publication. Revision is even more important than the initial writing. Knowing what is good, recognizing what needs to be changed, etc.

Answer 3

This varies from author to author. What I do is come up with an idea - it could be a story I heard or a news item - something that makes me say "what if." Like when I read about an old wives tale about your infant looking in a mirror - I thought - "What if a mother became obsessed with this old wives tale?" At that point the story wrote itself.

Once you get your first draft done, then the fun starts - editing, polishing, trimming, fixing, filling out your characters.

Lots of resources on the web for this topic.

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Answer 4

Paragraph 1- WHo WHat Where When
Paragraoh 2- WHy
Pharagrah 3 How
Paragraph 4- Quote
Paragraph 5- Concultion

Answer 5

1. Lay out a brief summery of your story line ( 1-3 sentences)
2. Write out the story in it's most BASIC form (IE. Jane got up. she went to the store and saw frank...)
3. Then, elaborate. ( Jane woke up to the sound of her buzzing alarm clock. She immediately jumped out of bed, it was time to meat Frank!. She got dressed and hurried down the street to the drugstore on the corner...)
4. add details like what it smells like, looks like, what food tastes like, character's feelings and thoughts...
5. then, finish up details and touch ups and it's done in a very easy way.
6. have someone read through and tell you if something doesn't make sense and corrects any errors.

does that help?