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O.Henry, the popular American short story writer, says the following about the secret of Short Story writing. O.Henry was the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). "I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule Rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public." Some of his popular short stories - An Afternoon Miracle A Car Loan The Detective Detector Hearts and Hands The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson The Last Leaf

By using Hashtags (#) people can find all tweets belonging to that particular category. These are some of the common hashtags used by writers - 1) #author 2) #authors 3) #editing 4) #fictionfriday 5) #novels 6) #novelists 7) #poem 8) #poet 9) #poets 10) #poetry 11) #pubtip 12) #publishing 13) #scifi 14) #selfpublishing 15) #writer 16) #writers 17) #writetip 18) #writing 19) #writingtips 20) #wrotetoday 
 There are more twitter hashtags, and people can create new hashtags depends upon their interest.

1. “And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.” —Ray Bradbury 2. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” —Richard Bach 3. “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” —Willa Cather 4. “I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.” —Roald Dahl 5. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” —Oscar Wilde 6. “If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” —Wally Lamb 7. “A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.” —W.H. Auden 8. “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.” —Philip Roth 9. “Writing is a delicious agony.” —Gwendolyn Brooks 10. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, h...

It is interesting to check through the first lines of some of the most successful books. Ten such best first lines are given below. 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice ) 2. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. (George Orwell, 1984 ) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow ) 4. I am an invisible man. (Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ) 5. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. (Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ) 6. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. (William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury ) 7. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. (Ha Jin, Waiting ) 8. Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had ...

Writing about naked emotions in a story is not easy. All the successful writers tell us "Don't tell, show the emotions in your writing." What does it mean? If we tell the emotions the readers won't feel resonated with it. Some readers may get annoyed by reading what is happening in the story, instead they want to feel the emotions what the character in the story goes through which can be done only through the way we describe what happens while experiencing the emotions. Bet it happy, or pain or angry. If we want to convey the emotion to our readers we must feel it as we write. Every one will talk about this, but very few will show us with examples. The article link given below shows you the examples, and I feel that it may be of help to many serious writers. Interested to know more about it? Read this informative article about conveying the emotions to the readers, written by Mary Jaksch,Editor-in-Chief at http://writetodone.com/how-to-write-better-2/