And They Lived Happily Ever After... Short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters.
The short story is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed in only one or a few significant episodes or scenes. The form encourages economy of setting, concise narrative, and the omission of a complex plot; character is disclosed in action and dramatic encounter but is seldom fully developed. Despite its relatively limited scope, though, a short story is often judged by its ability to provide a “complete” or satisfying treatment of its characters and subject.
Short
stories are a whole different way of writing. It contains much less details
than a normal story, thus forcing the reader to think and wonder more and make
his/her own conclusions.
Short
stories are often used to teach some kind of lesson.
!Short
enough for us to read through it at one sitting without interruption
!Streamlined—aims
at a single, unified effect; one main plot, generally no sub-plots
!Limited
number of characters and covers only a short span of time
!Relates
a highly dramatic or crucial time in the lives of the characters and then
usually ends quickly
!Fiction
Short Stories Types
Anecdote
Is a short and amusing but serious account, which may depict a real/fake incident or character. An anecdote is always presented as based in a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true".
Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of amoral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
Flash fiction
Is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity.There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.
Flash prose
Is brief creative writing, generally on the order of between 500 and 1500 words. It's also an umbrella term that encompasses various short format works such as prose poetry, short essays and other works of creative fiction and nonfiction.
Irish short story
Has a distinctive place in the modern Irish literary tradition. Many of Ireland's best writers, both in English and Irish, have been practitioners of the genre. It has been argued that its origins lie in the ancient Gaelic tradition of story-telling, though it conforms to the conventions of the genre elsewhere.
Minisaga
A minisaga, mini saga or mini-saga is a short piece of writing containing exactly 50 words, plus a title of up to 15 signs. However, the title requirement is not always enforced and sometimes eliminated altogether. Minisagas are alternately known as microstories, ultra-shorts stories, or fifty-word stories.
Molbo Story
A Molbo story is a Danish folktale about the people of Mols, who live in eastern Jutland near the town of Ebeltoft. In these tales the Molboes are portrayed as a simple folk, who act foolishly while attempting to be wise.
Short story cycle
Is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts.
Parable
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.
*Collect ideas for your story. *Start with the basics of the story Introduction Initial action Climax Descendant action Resolution *Know your characters. *Limits the extent of your story. *Decide who will tell the story. *Organize your thoughts. *Start writing.
Fun Stories Enjoying the Zoo Using multimedia energize all people to dig into research that they are otherwise sometimes loath to take on. We learn to create stories of famous figures in history. We are learning history as well as creative skills in order to tell the story of another. Population are also gaining valuable technology skills that are important to them. Children learn digital and online tools used to edit stories and present projects online. The process of creating a digital story calls for hands on learning in which person is in charge of creating the characters of their story with media.
