Plan your story.Once you've chosen where you want to submit, it's time to plan the story. If you're stumped for writing ideas, check out our100 Best Short Story Ideas, then readour guide for how to turn your idea into a brilliant short story plan. Write your first and second drafts...
At Short Fiction Break, we’ve done the hard work for you. We’ve already gathered an engaged audience actively looking for new stories to read. When you publish your story with us, we’ll share it with our extensive readership, giving it the exposure it deserves. When your story is pub...
How Many Words In a Short Story? -Find out here And finally, perhaps you’re still at step one: you haven’t started writing yet and are waiting for inspiration to strike. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered there as well:
As mentioned earlier, use AI to help with outlines,short story ideas, fact checking, and grammar review. Please don’t have AI tools write stories for you. At best, you’ll create a mediocre story that you don’t technically own. At worst, you will damage the publishing industry and the...
Jung’s short story collection . . . If that wasn’t amazing enough, my Asymptote publication got me another book translation deal. Because Asymptote is on the web and free to the public, the global public no less, the story has become a calling card of sorts; when agents and editors ...
3. Create a shortlist to submit your book to Once you have your ordered longlist, I would suggest that you submit your manuscript to 5-6 prospects at a time. However, before you start reaching out, give just a little more thought to your first choices. For example, perhaps you’ve or...
We’re going for broad interest, and there are other publications for those. Word Count Please keep articles under 5,000 words. We find 3,000 words to be the sweet spot. Manuscript Formatting Please submit using Modern Short Story Manuscript Format, but remove all personal information from ...
submitit We can help. Submitit takes the guesswork out of submitting to literary journals. Ourfancy schmancy algorithmallows us to strategically submit your story or essay to the right journals. We handle every step of the submission process: from formatting and optional editing, to cover letters...
Your Story Club The online short story publisher encourages upcoming writers by publishing their short stories from various genres and includes stories from several famous and new writers, which may be read for free. Although new submissions are not currently accepted, previously accepted content is...
Try a Different Press Release Angle (or Hook) Don’t send the same story with a new headline and opening paragraph. Brainstorm different approaches. What does your industry report on? Is there a story there you could develop involving your company? What does your industry ignore? Is that an...