From Rick: I just delivered a talk to a local writer’s group (www.LCRWriters.org) on story length and how to trim stories when you need to fit them into a certain word count. I’ve talked about several aspects of this topic
Read moreFrom Rick: This may sound like a strange topic, but it reflects a problem I’ve seen on several occasions. It means: does your story CONCEPT match the length allocated to it? The length problem spans all types of stories from
Read moreFrom Rick: Although Scott and I talk a lot about novels, because those are what both of us primarily write, everything we say in this blog applies equally to shorter forms. In this post I’ll discuss the shortest form: FLASH
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