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How long should a blog post be? How long is a piece of string? The answer is the same to both questions. Blog posts, as with stories of any kind, do not have a ceiling. They do not have a prescribed length, contrary to what the experts say. These same experts say that people don’t…
Perhaps you’ve read the short story attributed to Ernest Hemingway. His fellow writers bet that he couldn’t write a story in six words. They lost the bet: For sale: baby shoes. Never worn. This may be the shortest story ever told. And it works on every storytelling level. It has a beginning, a middle and…
Mr. V. sure knew how to spin a story The following eight points are Vonnegut’s clear-eyed advice to writers of short stories, and while it some of it — like being a sadist — doesn’t exactly apply to business stories (LOL), much of it does. Get to the point, he says, create a rooting interest (a…