How do you revise your short story?
Read your short story to yourself. Ask yourself if the opening of the story made you want to read on.
Make up two or three different attention grabbing lines. Substitute each one for your original opening. Reread your story and pick the best one. Ask a friend what they think if you have trouble choosing.
Read your story again and look for action words and descriptive words denoting action. Sprinkle your story with some descriptive action words, e.g. slithered, meandered, sauntered.
Check for dialogue. Do you have people talking in at least four places of your story? Make sure you use words like murmured, cried out, mumbled, whined rather than "said."
If you need help with any revisions, see me.
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