If a short story should have a prologue or not. Should they?
I usually just read novels, I’ve not read many short stories so am not fimiliar with the structure, etc of them.
I don’t think short stories really need a prologue, to be honest. But I suppose if it did have one, it would be just a few sentences.
I’m looking to bring out a short story collection. I have ten stores that have already been published, and ten that I’ve written specifically for this collection. I’m not sure how many reprints to include (obviously I’ve already checked the previous contracts and rights, so they’d be no problem reprinting some of the stories in a new collection).
Also how many stories would you expect to see?
I don’t know if there’s any rule as to the ratio of new and old stories. Some short story collections have a list at the front, saying, "[name of story] first appeared in [magazine]" or "[name of story] reprinted by permission of [company]", so you can assume those are old ones, and any story that’s not in the list must be new.
How many stories I’d expect would depend on the length of each one. I’d expect to pay about as much for a short story collection as I would for a novel, which would mean the collection overall would be about the same length as a novel – 40,000 words or more.
How do you quote from from a literature book? The short story is in a literature book, however the author of the story is not the author of the literature book. For example, the author of the literature is X.J Kennedy, but I am quoting a paragraph from another author who wrote the short story. Do you quote the actual author who wrote the short story or the author from the literature book?
You would just quote the author of the story. For example, I have a literature book for my English class that has a bunch of different poems, plays and short stories in it all of them obviously by different authors, where as the lit book has the name of two authors on the front. In actuality, those two authors on the front of my lit book are the editors for the lit book. If you were writing a works cited page you would want to include the name of the editor for the lit book as well as the author of the story you are citing.
Can anyone recommend me some interesting short stories or short story authors? I’m not looking for short stories by classic writers, I’m looking for something modern, gloomy, atmospheric, with iconic main character. If you have seen the 2011 movie Drive, than i would love to find some short stories similar to it.
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. We used it for a class and every story was gloomy.
http://www.amazon.com/Scribner-Anthology-Contemporary-Short-Fiction/dp/1416532277/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324846680&sr=8-1
So I have the text "Rappaccini’s Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawethorne to cite in my composition. Problem is that my teacher emailed the story to us, so it is not included in a collection or anything nd I have no clue where he got the text. How do I cite a short story that is not in a collection in MLA format?
There’s an excellent website called easybib (easybib.com). It allows you to create citations for free in MLA format. You’ll go to that cite, click on the type of resource (in this case web) and highlight your teacher’s link and paste it in the appropriate box. When you press the button that says cite this, it will do it for you. easy peasy.
Because I have a horror story in mind, but I was originally planning it to be just a short story, then I got ideas on making a sequel. Or would an editor/publisher recommend I write out more or try to mash them into one? Because also the lady gets pregnant but I kind of wanted to skip that little time frame and her already have her baby in the sequel. So I guess in short, is it okay to have a short story with a short story sequel after?
well, asimovs three rules of robotics have appeared in many many short stories afterward. i mean i guess you could allude to it… use elements you established before.. cant say that ive actually seen a short story with a sequel. the point of a short story is really to finish the story in one read. so, i mean if it would take two short stories to actually sum the story, id suggest writing a novelette.
Short story: Winters Dream by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (a lot of detail)
Read it yourself.
I’m trying to cite a hemmingway short story that is in a textbook with a million other short stories in it. How do I go about this?
This site has helped me with ALL of my citations I’ve ever had to do! The link is to the MLA format page. Along the left hand side of the page are different sub-topics you can look through.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
This short story should have meaning and should be able to have a general explication.
This is for HW, and I am going to present this text with a group of 4 students including myself.
Flowers for Algernon
I want to write a short story that has three main characters, and switch to each ones point of view. In books they switch every chapter, but I’m just writing a short story. How can i switch off without making my writing confusing?
Either write your story in third person POV or change it as in
-(Character Name) POV-
For each change.