Thursday, November 10, 2011

Read my short story please?

A short story needs to grip the reader right off. You dwell too much on the interior of the lodge and use way too many adjectives. We get the picture. The cabin's warm and he hates to leave it but he needs to. Something's pushing him out into the cold, something momentous, maybe terrifying, possibly dangerous but he needs to get out. Build up the tension early and don't telegraph the ending. The writing's fine but the content needs to be revised to give it some pep.

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