Presentation and Content of Short Stories

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Presentation:

When presenting short stories, you don't need to worry that much. The title should be centred and followed by a seating line, and the text justified or to the left, but that's about it. However, author's notes at the end of the story are always a good add-on as you can somehow explain what's happening/happened in your story if some parts are unclear. Also remember the simple rules of grammar:

-Each speaker needs his/her own line when begging to speak once more

-When the subject changes, a new paragraph should be started.

-Capitals are needed to start the title of a person or a place (and other varieties)

Content:

There are so many elements to feature when it comes to the block content of your short story. And again, I can't write it for you. The work is up to you, I'm just giving advice and tips. So, here's my advice and tips on different elements of a short story that could involve anything.

Descriptions - describe spells or methods you are asked to feature in the short story in flourishing detail. For instance, don't just quote the lesson, put in in your own, arty words and write it correctly but to interest the grader.

Characters - use only a few and very simple characters; don't go into details. Explain what a certain character/s do as a job, i.e. if they were a Potioneer in a potions short story assignment, but don't describe them in detail. It is possible to get their characters across with only a few lines if you want to make them more stereotypical or extreme. Don't make your characters to perfect or weird, however, with short stories for simple classes (but yes, you may need weird characters for divination and that kind of thing).

Spells Featured - don't rent them in format and try and add a character twist onto them and explain the relationship the character has with the spell. Often make the character fail at the spell once or maybe more times so as to show what can happen when the spell is failed.

Speech - speech will be needed for spells and such but don't feature extensive conversations. In short stories for classes it's more about the descriptions.

Pace - don't make the pace to fast and don't make the story run over more than the period of a day. You should be presenting one-scene story.

End - end on an impacting, maybe humour sentence to have an effect on the grader.

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I hope this helped with your short stories! Being a budding writer more suited to long novels, these are my few tips from only a few experiences. However, I have found them to really help.