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Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully.
PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research.
PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys.
PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.
Tania Hershman
Tania Hershman is a former science journalist and is now a short story writer, poet, and novelist specializing in hybrid and cross-genre writing. She has written and edited many books, including an anthology of stories inspired by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics.
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