: Re: What are some good instruction manuals for writing short stories? I'm looking to learn how to write good short stories, what are some good instruction manuals I should use to learn from?

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For writing short stories try this one:

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway

I also found it really helpful to read a lot of short stories. Two anthologies I really liked were:

Points of View edited by James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter 7th Edition by Richard Bausch and R. V. Cassill

A couple of authors whose short stories I found inspirational were:

Anton Chekov
Leo Tolstoy (his novellas e.g "Kruetzer Sonata" and "Death of Ivan Illyich"
O' Henry
Guy DeMaupassant
Edgar Allan Poe

For more recent short stories you can pick up the last couple years of "Best American Short Stories" - which collects the best short stories by year.

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