What is a short story?

Question

...and what is the difference between a short story and a novel.

Also, do you know any famous writers who write short stories?

Answer 1

A short story is a work of fiction intended to be read in one sitting. It has a limited plot, and usually only a few characters.
A novel is longer, usually broken up into chapters, and has a more complex plot. The setting and characters are more developed.

Answer 2

a short story is a story with a good plot just like a novel except a novel has a lot more detail and pages! you still have to have loads of detail in a short story too but just not as much. a short story would be like 2 or 3 pages of a4 paper whereas a novel is a whole lot more! just think of its as a normal car and a limo. a limo is a lot longer than a normal car but the car still works pretty much the same as the limo!

Answer 3

a short story is a "short " story an novel is a whole story about something ! like a book

Answer 4

As it sounds. A short story is short, only a couple of pages, whereas a novel is a whole book

Answer 5

a novel is long,a short story is short

Answer 6

once upon a the end. Now that was a short story,,,,. A novel is what posh people read rather than waiting for the DVD to come out like the rest of us.

Answer 7

a novel is over 1000 words. a short story is less.

Answer 8

this is an example of a short story and a fairytale all in one.

"once upon a time there was a happily married man"

Answer 9

a man walks into a bar and says hello to the bartender

The End.

(a novel has many more words than that)

Answer 10

attempt "The Lottery" by way of Shirley Jackson, "I haven't any Mouth and that i ought to Scream", "Croatoan", "The Paladin of the lost Hour" by way of Harlan Ellison, "Wine on the desert" by way of Max form, "The Monkey's Paw" by way of W.W. Jacobs, "How the Camel have been given his Hump" by way of Rudyard Kipling, "the journey of the Speckled Band" by way of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "the guy Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" by way of Mark Twain, "If there's a Will..." by way of Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson, "The Masque of the purple dying" by way of Edgar Allen Poe, "Harrison Bergeron" by way of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "I Sing the physique electric powered" by way of Ray Bradbury, "An prevalence at Owl Creek Bridge" by way of Ambrose Bierce, "Goodman Brown" by way of Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Legend of Sleepy hollow" by way of Washington Irving, "contained in the Hillls, the cities" by way of Clive Barker, "Survivior form" by way of Stephen King, "3 O'Clock" by way of Cornell Woolrich.....right that's a commence, besides. i do no longer comprehend what the "correct short tale of all time" is, neither does everybody else. There are hundreds that are extremely properly worth examining that i haven't named, authors which includes Algernon Blackwood, Issac Beshevis Singer, Doris Lessing, Raymond Chandler, even Mickey Spillane and Louis L'Amour have written large ones. the fast tale is an artwork sort all that's own.