A long time ago, I started to write short stories. I did not know they were short stories at the time, or did not want to call them so. They were just stories that were short. I wrote ideas, plots, characters. In my mind, they were novels. Now that I start looking at these “old” stories again, I am surprised that they are only a couple of pages long.
Maybe it was meant to be, because in my head, they were a hundred pages long. I could not have written more on these topics at the time, I had no idea how to delay the plot, describe the scenery. I was young, went straight to the point, no time to mess about and get to know the characters. Get in and get out!
What I do now is: use the material I have
I have started to look at my old stories with a new eye. I re-write them with more details. I try to get the reader, not just me, to see what it is all about. In my head, the characters are clear, but in paper, they are not.
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I also compile my short stories together and look for links between them so that they can be published as a series, just like the Lunch Break Love Stories
More to come soon, I am working on a HLM story in French…
Free Writing in 2013 