By Anita Saran
Outline
Learn how to begin a short story, the different techniques to use such as intrigue and drama, how to plot it, and how to end it in a credible manner which echoes the beginning and so completes it in a satisfying way. Learn through examples.
Length of the Guide
This guide has one small chapter that deals with the various ways to begin a short story, how to plot it, as well as how to write a satisfying and believable ending.
The estimated length of the course will be around 2000 words.
Question/Evaluation Exercises
There will be an Assignment at the end of the chapter which will be evaluated. There is no separate final test and the score of the assignment will be used to award a rating at the end of the course.
E-mail Queries
Aspirants can also send in their specific queries to the writer of the guide via our email address writers at chillibreeze dot com, which can be answered in about 3 days’ time.
About the guide instructor
Anita Saran is the published author of the short story, ‘City of Victory’ broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004; a collection of short stories – ‘Dolphin Girl and Other Stories’ published by Har Anand in 1997, ‘Aditya, the Underwater Boy’ — a novella which won an award in the Nehru Children’s Book Trust national competition, and was published by them in 1996; the funny fantasy novel ‘Circe’, published as an e-book in 2001 by Electric Umbrella, And which will be published again as e-book as well as paperback by Mojocastle Press.‘The Enlightened Robot’, a short story in the online literary journal, Cezanne’s Carrot, and many stories, poems and articles published in the leading newspapers of Karnataka. Anita’s first novel Circe has been released as e-book and will soon be in print too.
List of Chapters/Sections in this guide
Chapter 1: Beginning and Endings
Chapter 2: Plotting your Story
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