Friday, March 14, 2008

Reasons Short Stories Are Rejected

A controversy recently erupted over a short story contest in which the prizes were not awarded because it was determined that none of the finalists was good enough. This post is not about that controversy, but as a result of the controversy, the newspaper sponsoring the contest ran this piece by Steve Moran: Common Faults of Short Stories Submitted. Lousy title, but a valuable list (a long list) of things to think about when preparing a story for submission.

2 comments:

Myfanwy Collins said...

This is great and helpful. Thanks for posting this link, Cliff.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing. It was a
good article.

Terry Finley

http://terryrfinley.blogspot.com/