short-story

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don__ suffocate your heart.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

Don__ interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

The good writing ideas don__ have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Writing a story is like going on a date__ou will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Don__ break the rules when you haven__ fully figured them out yet.

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

I knew a girl and she felt like art.Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull,Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes,Sometimes only black and white,But she was always a piece of exquisite art.