Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

A simple method for writing a short story (I mean really simple).

I like to write short stories. Perhaps that is because I think I have so much to tell, but not enough persons to sit and listen.

Anyways, here is one method to writing a short story:

1. Remember an event in your life.
2. Write the event.
3. Change the names and the places.
4. Change the ending of the actual event to something (1) you wish would have happened, (2) you are happy didn’t happen, or (3) anything in between.

There you have it. It is really simple. It actually works. It is what many famous writers through the years have done.