Short stories are a good means for taking risks with writing. Challenge yourself to try a different genre or Point of View.

Eldred "Bob" Bird shows how writing fiction is like drawing with crayons—and how story length compares to color options. A great word picture for writers!

by John Peragine In the last year, short story competitions have helped focus my writing. I read many short stories in elementary school and always enjoyed them, but I believed they were some condensed form of a larger work. I never thought of short-form writing as something special on its own. Fast forward to adulthood […]

By Lyn Horner I’m a regular follower of the Western Romance Writers Please Post Here #2 discussion on Amazon’s Meet Our Authors forum. In late 2013, fifteen authors, including myself, agreed to put together an anthology of short stories intended to give readers a sample of each one’s writing style. Rawhide ʼn Roses.(A Western Romance […]