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Elements of a short story
The major elements of a short story are as follows:
- Character in Short Stories. A character is someone or something that takes part in actions depicted in the short story.
- Setting (brief but poetic and vivid)
- Plot (as simple and interesting as possible)
- Conflict (intense but one)
- Theme


How to get started
- Read, Read, Read a lot!
- Look out the window; the whole world is a story, and every moment is a miracle.
- Write on a regular, daily basis. Sit down and compose sentences for a couple of hours every day — even if you don’t feel like it.
- Keep tabs on the world about you with the aid of notebooks. Notebooks are “incubators,” a place to begin with overheard conversation, expressive phrases, images, ideas, and interpretations on the world around you.
- Collect stories from everyone you meet.
- Keep the amazing, the unusual, the strange, and the irrational stories you hear and use them for your own purposes.

Hello dear nairalanders, as the title implies, this article is mainly to enlighten on the art of prose writing which happily can be absorbed in no time, as with most things in the realm of knowledge . i wish you the best in your strife for excellence


Introduction to prose writing
Prose writing is a branch of creative writing that spans through the aspect of flash fiction, short story (for children and adults), novella and novels. Creative writing is a process of writing or developing a story from a given material which could come either from the imagination of the mind or from a given source.


Short story writing
What is short story? A short story is work of “fiction or imagination” that is usually written in “easily understandable grammatical structure” with “natural flow of speech”. A short story is meant to be read at a single sitting and therefore it should be as direct and brief as possible. Because of directness and brevity, a typical short story has very little action and hardly any character development. However it must provide a snapshot of life – typically a decisive moment that may lead result lethal to the character in one or other form.

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Hello all. Here's a fictive tale I began to write a short while ago. I'd appreciate your remarks and criticisms, especially constructive. Cheerio.

Not bad.
Like the lady at the top, 'hope this is not the end?'

Magnificent and sensational stuff you got here. Kudos. Keep it coming.

**Crosses leg on a stool and lifts a goblet of G4 heavily laced with sugar to mouth, just then phone rings, he reaches for it and flings it into the nearest wall** No disturbance pls!!

flow1759: Before i could say Jack Robinson Kelvin had finished drinking the red label. And before i could say Jack Robinson again.................... "gbuuuuu gbuuuu gboooooo" Kelvin had threw up on the lady.

Whats d essence of drinking when it eventually makes u regretful. Wine is indeed a mocker!
Btw Flow1759, nice and hilarious is what u have here, but it should be your past testimony (i.e., if indeed these are your experience) and NOT your present life! it is appointed unto Men once to die, after that, JUDGMENT. Give your life wholly to Christ. Believe me, it pays.