The Art of Short Story and Novella Writing
Savvy Writer’s Book #2
By Kim Knight
Genre: Self-Help, Writing, Nonfiction
Compared to novel writing, short stories and novellas need special and different skills that every writer
should master. Readers love shorter stories! From Kim Knight, the award-winning and number #1 best-
selling author of 365 Days of Writing Prompts for Romance writers, The Art of Short Story and Novella
Writing writer’s reference is perfect for both seasoned and aspiring writers of all genres. The Art of Short
Story and Novella Writing will help you perfect, sharpen, and increase your skills and abilities when
writing engaging shorter stories, novellas, or novelettes for both stand-alone and series stories. With
detailed and practical steps, the sole aim of this guide is to help writers confidently write within a high
demand and well-paid market. With easy-to-engage-with chapters, discover the practical art of short story
and novella writing. The Art of Short Story and Novella Writing includes practical exercises to help you
master the skills to write your next series of stories:
•Story-telling styles for short stories: how and why it should differentiate from novel writing.
•Character development with limited word count.
•Strengthening themes and plots with limited word count.
•Where and how to start a shorter story to capture reader’s attention.
•Creating compelling stories with peaks and satisfying endings for readers, with a small word
count.
•Learn about the market, paid writing contests, and where to submit shorter stories.
Each chapter has a dedicated writing space for every practical exercise, and for plotting your ideas and
characters. Writing compelling shorter stories with meaning, and well developed characters is not easy!
But, with The Art of Short Story and Novella Writing, you will ramp up your skills set and become a
master of the technique. Note: the paperback will allow writers to make notes, carry out the exercises, and
throw away the hundreds of notepads us writers have sitting around.
Available in e-book ( $2.99) and paperback ($5.99) , audio version on its way!
Kim was born in 1983 and from London in the UK. She's a mother to a beautiful little boy, and a proud
award-winning author (awarded Best Romance 2017 for A Stranger in France), and #1 Best-Selling
Author (365 Days of Writing Prompts for Romance Writers). She's also a contribution writer at Aspiring
Authors Magazine LLC. Kim started her journey as a traditionally published author and later dived into
self-publishing also.
As a reader she's head over heels in love with romance, historical fiction, crime fiction, African-
American, suspense and thriller genre books. As a writer, Kim enjoys creating stories with a diverse and
multi-cultural line up, within the romance, romantic suspense and general thriller and crime genres. When
she's not reading, or writing stories of her own her other passions include practising her French, astrology,
fashion, make-up artistry, drawing, spending time at her sewing machine dressmaking, watching make -
up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, letter writing and being a mum.
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