4 Ways To Come Up With Short Story Ideas

Come up with innovative, unique, and interesting ideas for your short stories fast

Writing short stories is one of the best ways to grow and improve as an author.

They don’t take as long to write as, say, 80k-word novels, but still are able to convey a complete story, or a little snippet of a life.

This way, instead of balancing hundreds of complicated relationships, plot lines that interweave and cross and tangle up in one another, and astonishing twists and developments, you can simply focus on your craft.

While writing short stories is great, however, it can take a long time to find a good idea for one.

Since short stories are so, well, short — if the core idea isn’t good, the whole thing won’t be too good.

There’s a very strong correlation between concept and finished product, so how do you get that elusive great concept in the first place?

Well, you could always wait for a great idea to come out of nowhere and hit you — that does indeed happen every once in a while.

However, learning how to control your creativity, instead of having your creativity control you, is a vital skill in being able to level up as an author, and just as a creative in general.