A plot will always be engaging if you add in ... right up to the ending. Plan a short story. Draw a mountain and write your ideas for the short story on the correct parts of the mountain.

Can’t concentrate for 250+ pages right now? A short story might be just the thing to get you back into reading regularly. Spending lots of time at home over the past year has given us more time ...

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...

Now let's talk about the plot. "In The Lost Lands" is only about 6,000 words long, according to Martin; that's roughly 17 ...