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Re: Writing short stories or fic?

[(Anonymous)]

> Do you still follow a certain narrative structure and condense it?

In my experience as a short-story reader, the structures are slightly different. In a novel, you have the space for multiple acts developing the conflict. Pride and Prejudice involves about a year of time, and multiple little class-based misunderstandings and conflicts that drive the lovers apart, then back together. With a short story you're going to focus on a single, pivotal moment for the characters. If it's a romance, what is the thing that changes their minds from "maybe" to "yes?" If it's a breakup, what's the moment that makes them unhappy?

I think many shorts follow the ABCDE format:

Action: Almost always in media res in a way that foreshadows the conflict.

Background: Briefly, only the points that relate to the conflict.

Conflict: Usually only one, and the rest might be dropped as one sentence in background.

Development: One to five scenes, with acceptable time-jumps between.

Ending: Resolve the conflict and leave the rest up to the reader.