Comments on: How to Write a Short Story: The Short Story Checklist https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story Your voice is a gift. Share it. Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Gwen Ellen Boucher https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story#comment-107887 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:40:48 +0000 http://writers.com/?p=5732#comment-107887 Hello:
I started to write seriously in the late 70’s. I loved to write in High School in the early 60’s but life got in the way. Around the 00’s many of the obstacles disappeared. Since then I have been writing more, and some of my work was vanilla transgender stories. Here in 2024 transgender stories have become tiresome because I really don’t have much in common with that mind set.

The glare of an editor that could potentially pay me is quite daunting, so I would like to start out unpaid to see where that goes. I am not sure if a writer’s agent would be a good fit for me. My work life was in the Trades, not as some sort of Academic. That alone causes timidity, but I did read about a fiction writer who had been a house painter.

This is my first effort to publish since the late 70’s. My pseudonym would perhaps include Ahabidah.

Gwen Boucher.

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]]> By: John Haag https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story#comment-72944 Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:22:07 +0000 http://writers.com/?p=5732#comment-72944 Thank you for these directions and tips. It’s very encouraging to someone like me, just NOW taking up writing.

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]]> By: Cliff Winnig https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story#comment-197 Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:06:09 +0000 http://writers.com/?p=5732#comment-197 “ In Genre stories, all the questions are answered, threads are tied up, problems are solved, though the results of carnage may be spread over the landscape.”

Not just no but NO.

See for example the work of MacArthur Fellow Kelly Link.

]]> By: Rosemary Bensko https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story#comment-6 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:37:36 +0000 http://writers.com/?p=5732#comment-6 In reply to Kim Hanson.

Hi, Kim Hanson,

Some good places to find publications specific to your story are NewPages, Poets and Writers, Duotrope, and The Submission Grinder.

]]> By: Kim Hanson https://writers.com/how-to-write-a-short-story#comment-5 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:11:49 +0000 http://writers.com/?p=5732#comment-5 Rosemary – Is there any chance you could add a little something to your checklist? I’d love to know the best places to submit our short stories for publication. Thanks so much.

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