Do You Know Short Story Rules?

How do you write short fiction correctly?

Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko
The Startup
Published in
5 min readSep 27, 2019

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Traditional short stories aren’t generally stream-of-consciousness spontaneous anecdotes; the first draft may begin that way, but then you should apply the rules if you want the story to be published in a conventional magazine or anthology. Some Literary innovations can be accepted into certain publications by editors who are lax about…

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Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko
The Startup

Gold-medal-winning psychological suspense novelist, writing Instructor, manuscript editor living in Berkeley.