![]() ![]() An ideal schedule might be for two hours each on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but whatever you can manage is fine. Step 1: Look at your calendar and decide in advance which day(s) and time(s) you’ll write. Here’s a one-month plan for completing your first short story. It also should be fun! The act of constructing plots, developing characters and creating dialogue can be challenging, even frustrating, but I never find it boring, and it just might allow you to escape from your daily life at the same time that you access the most imaginative parts of your own brain. It’s one you’re a lot likelier to finish if, rather than waiting for the muse, you create the possibility for inspiration by planning a time and setting up the circumstances that will allow you to write regularly. Though some people have knocked out an entire short story in a single sitting, it’s more realistic to see writing a story not as an inspiration-fueled creative binge but as a multiweek project. ![]()
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