Be the Star of the Short Story Competition with These Tips

Writing for competition can be a great deal of fun, but only if you know how to write a winning entry. This article provides some tips for writing a great competitive short story.

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Make Your Mark with a Great Short Story

Entering a short story competition can be lots of fun, and very rewarding as well, but in order to win you will need to tell a compelling and interesting tale. This article provides some tips writers can use to make their submissions stand head and shoulders above the rest.

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Hooking the Judge with the First Line

An article explaining how to write a first line that will impress the judge of a short story competition.

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Choosing a Good Title

An article explaining the tools you can use to choose the right title for your short story.

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Writing Short Stories for Competition

An article on how to write the short stories that will win competitions.

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Dialogue Helps Keep Up the Pace in Short Fiction

This article discusses how dialogue in a story can help to move the narrative along at a good pace, keeping the reader´s interest. It also covers how dialogue helps with characterization and how characters and their speech can be used for particular effect.

Submitted By jak