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10159959 No.10159959 [Reply] [Original]

How do I learn to write short stories?

Should I just try to imitate my favourite short story writers? I don't read many of them but I like Mishima and Fitzgerald and Chekhov.

>> No.10160055

>>10159959
Read a ton of short stories first of all. Then determine which ones you liked and which ones you want to understand better. Study the shit out of those stories. Then, write a story outside the influence of any of those stories. Once you start shaping it, take the lessons you've learned from your favorites and then apply them to your half formed story.

>> No.10160120

>tfw you will never be maupassant and have fucking flaubert mentor you
there is a family friend who is a published writer who gets mentioned on lit every now and then though

>> No.10160142

>want to write short stories
>no money in it

>> No.10160150

>>10160142
what is there money in writing?