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Q&A Short Story Outline Issues

As What and Other's have stated, A short story drives home a point. It doesn't have many subplots or other angles. It's like a children's book in a way. They are usually short and only a couple ...

posted 7y ago by ggiaquin16‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:07:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar ggiaquin16‭ · 2019-12-08T06:07:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
As What and Other's have stated, A short story drives home a point. It doesn't have many subplots or other angles. It's like a children's book in a way. They are usually short and only a couple pages but they build to a goal of teaching a moral or lesson or virtue or what ever it is the goal of the story is. So it start's out with an angry lonely monster who just wanted to make friends. by the end of the short story the angry lonely monster has friends and is happy because someone gave him a chance and that is all he needed. Lesson of the story, give people a chance. So if you think about the goals and the lesson you want to teach, as other's stated, you can just start writing it, redraft if you don't like it and look over it to make sure it really hits the point you want to make :)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-02-16T15:36:03Z (over 7 years ago)
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