Seven opening habits that weaken short fiction, with concrete revision fixes for each — from alarm-clock beginnings to backstory dumps and pronoun fog.
A practical walkthrough for new writers: how to take one prompt line and build it into a character, a conflict, and a finished short-story draft worth revising.
Short fiction runs on compression: fewer characters, one escalating pressure, a single load-bearing scene, and an ending that turns rather than tidies. Here...
