Writer's Room(4).
How to build a short story.
Welcome to the Writer’s Room.
This is a space for people who write, and for people who love understanding how writing works. Here, I break down the craft without overcomplicating it and share what’s happening behind the scenes of my own work.
In this section, we’ll talk about:
• how I build believable characters
• how I layer faith into fiction without preaching
• structure, POV, dialogue, and tension
• writing as both art and discipline
Think of this as pulling up a chair while the work is being made, honest, practical, and grounded in process.
Let’s start with this...
If you had 100 words to sell yourself to an investor who is about to sponsor your dreams, how would you go about it.
Would you spend the time talking about non essential information like your favorite colors or the fact that your best food is Amala?
Or would you fill those hundred words with the juice; your top skills and anything that will drive the investor to take a bet on you?
This is what you should do with a short story.
And this mail is going to show you how...
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