Is it worth to write short stories? How to write them? p3

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HOW TO WRITE SHORT STORIES THEN?

Make the character list short
Start the closestto the ending
If you’re to count…No more than 1000-5000 words
Use a very defined ruling idea: adultery, murder, justice, anecdotic.
Use a very strong point of view.If it is a murder take a stance in favour or against and how you expect the reader to react.
Remember, for the second time, you’re to write very few words
Erase, erase, erase. Or to say it in the craft’s argot: edit. With the big scissor.

For en ending I’ll take a phrase attributed both to Mark Twain and Blaise Pascal:

Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte[1].

I wrote long to you for I had no time to make it short.

Summarizing: to make something as short as a question mark, Victor Hugo must have spent more than a few hours thinking. He also must have filled the waste bin.

What do you prefer writing: long or short stories?

Enjoy both. Pasto kalo.

[1] It is attributed to Pascal in French… I shrug. I don’t know.