aka the Power of the Short Story

Specifically looking at episodes: Sonnie's Edge (Volume One), Lucky 13 (Volume One), The Tall Grass (Volume Two) and Bad Travelling (Volume Three).

The episode looks at:

• A short story should pack a punch
• Keeping your audience guessing
• Considering all characters - some can be inanimate objects, settings, places
• Building the tension, and
• Doing the right thing by doing lots of wrong things, along with questionable heroes.
• But also, not having to do ALL those things in one story!

Also, some mini admin: This podcast is now going fortnightly, in order to allow me to carve out some time to work on new projects. Ironically including creating some short stories.

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You can grab a copy of No Masters Or Kings (as mentioned when discussing Lucky 13) here: books2read.com/u/mqqy6e

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We haven't covered short fiction before, so here are some of my favourite episodes for you to also check out:

• Episode 12: Alien: Earth, Episode 6
• Episode 10: Barbie
• Episode 15: Mary and George

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