Story King Tips - a podcast by The Story King

Season 2: Episode 9

 

So today is the first installment of writing advice for the podcast. I’m calling these episodes Story King Tips. And the first topic we’re dealing with will be methods for writing longer stories. I’ll be going over three in particular: Interweaving storylines, multiple perspectives and then we’ll talk a little bit about the use of flashbacks.

 

But why talk about any of this in the first place? Perhaps, you’re already a novelist and you don’t struggle with writing long-form fiction. In which case, this episode may not be for you.  But if you’re like me, you might need some help.

 

I’m primarily a short story and novella writer. I can write up 20,000 words comfortably, but beyond that, it starts falling apart for me. I can’t keep the story together. I get bored with it.

 

And I hate fluff. I want my stories to have the least amount of erroneous information. I don’t want needless scenes. And generally, I’m always able to tell my stories in a relatively short time span. For me, five thousand words is already too long for a short story. I write them sometimes, but I usually feel like I’ve done something wrong. Like I’m being long-winded or something.

 

I’m much more comfortable keeping my fiction short.

 

So writing a full-fledged novel has been a dream, but a challenge for me.  

 

So I’ve been thinking about different ways of writing longer stories based on things I’ve read and movies I’ve seen. So we’re going to discuss them today.

 

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