From short stories to novels to screenplays, from horror to fantasy to realistic fiction, Ray Bradbury spun gold throughout his career.

It's called home, so in future, my stories and writing might change because this is my country now." She hopes people back home will get to read her book, along with Malayalam speakers in Canada.

Short stories thrive on their ability to evoke emotion and provoke thought in a brief format. This makes them an excellent medium for exploring complex ideas or themes in a digestible way.

THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not writing that one great novel that would put them on the front list of ...

I also want to get into writing novels the way I write short stories, which is to finish one, put it away, take one out, start another one. And so that would be really hard if you're writing 350 ...

This prompt generates writing exercises that might help you do that (they work for me anyway). Prompt: “Please generate five short writing exercises targeted at helping me overcome writer’s block.

Meadows: So we had our prompts. Sittenfeld: Write a thousand-word short story in the style of Curtis Sittenfeld that includes these elements: lust, kissing, flip-flops, regret and middle age.