Drawing your reader as fast as possible is very important when writing a short story
. You only have a few seconds to hook them so you should choose your world very carefully. Here are a few tips to help you do that. The thing you should try and do is make your writing as vivid as possible. I’m a believer in most good writing is based in reality even fiction, so the reader should be able to feel as if they could find them selves in the situation of your main character. Just remember an empathetic reader is more often then not to be willing to take the ride with your character.
Strong dialogue is also a good way to move the story forward. But be careful not to waste a lot of space on chatter that only takes up space in the story. Because in a short story you only have a limited amount of space you need to make every word count toward the theme of the story. You’re going to have to be ruthless here, if it does not belong cut it.
