How to Write a Short Story That Captivates Your Reader

Most writers need to get a quarter million clichés out of their systems before they hope to sell something.)

Avoid long blocks of description; rather, write just enough to trigger the theater of your reader’s mind.)

Eliminate scenes that merely get your characters from one place to another. The reader doesn’t care how they got there, so you can simply write: *Late that afternoon, Jim met Sharon at a coffee shop…*)