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Important Tips for writing Short Stories

 

Narrative Forms

• Elements of the Story
• A Succession of Incidents Required
• The Character Interest
• Uses of Description
• Kinds of Description
• Various Moods as Incidents

 

Literary Divisions and General Principles

• The Conceptual and Emotional
• Subject-matter
• Appeal of Experience, Beauty, and Truth
• Literary Principles and Qualities
• Conceptual Writing
• The Sense of Value
• Writing having Artistic Quality
• Two Things Requisite in Writing

 

The Story in Particular

• The Art of the Story
• The Place of Sensation in Writing

 

Special Study of the Story

• Symbols for Visualization
• Audition and Other Sensations
• Instances of Visualization
• Motor Effects of Visualization
• Inference in Literature
• Effects of Incident and Mood
• Methods of Characterization
• The Subjective and Objective
• Interest of the Plot and its Purpose
• Interpretative Application of the Symbols
• Different Forms of the Story

 

A Few Cautions

• The suggestions
• Author's Purpose should be Concealed
• Unity in Visualization
• Fine Writing
• Visualization Harmony of Detail