Today I’m pleased to have a guest post from my friend and agency-sister Kate Heartfield on the craft of short story writing. This is an area where I’ve struggled as a writer, but she’s found tremendous success. I asked her to come by and share some advice for aspiring short story authors. The timing is […]
The Time It Happened
Like many writers, I started out writing short fiction as part of a creative writing class. It was brutal. I wanted to write fantasy, and quickly found that 5,000 words is almost never enough room to build a compelling world, create a magic system, and tell a good story. Even so, over the course of […]
