title: A Writer's Guide to Fiction: A Concise, Practical Guide for Novelists and Short-Story Writers (Writers Guide Series)
author:  Elizabeth Lyon 
description: "A pragmatic marketing guide written for and about real writers in the trenches."
zlib_text: A Routledge Writer’s Guide
  Ailsa Cox
  
  Writing Short Stories
  Are you struggling to write a short story? 
  Or keen to try, but unsure where to start? 
  You want to learn from published writers, but don’t know how you can? 
  Writing Short Stories is the solution. 
  Ideal for those new to the genre or for anyone who wishes to improve their 
  technique, this guide will help you to achieve your full potential as a short-
  story writer. 
  Each chapter of the book: 
  • introduces key aspects of the craft of short-story writing, 
  including structure, dialogue, characterization, viewpoint, 
  narrative voice and more; 
  • shows how a wide variety of published writers have approached 
  the short-story genre, in order to deepen the insights you gain 
  from your own work; 
  • gets you writing, with a series of original, sometimes 
  challenging and always rewarding, exercises that can be tackled 
  alone or adapted for use in a group; 
  • encourages you to be inventive, to break writing habits and to 
  try something n