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What makes a short story? Characters, a setting, action of some kind, dialogue perhaps. These are the traditional ingredients but you will find stories that omit one or more of these to create a new effect or emphasis. You have worked on all these aspects of narrative in your exercises. If you mixed all your pieces of writing together, would they make a story? Or does a short story need something else, and if so what is it?
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© 1986 Julia Casterton
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Casterton, J. (1986). Making a Short Story. In: Creative Writing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07582-9_5
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