Algonkian Week #9

This week we recapped and revisited the rationale for our stories. It is their contention that, for short fiction to be publishable, it has to have these basics:

• an original story


• a very good hook


• a sympathetic major character


• a defined complication with catalyst


• minor complications


• a suitable resolution

Nothing earth-shattering about that. It can be quite difficult to apply those criteria to some published stories (try!), but I agree that if my story fits those criteria it has a better chance of being published.

I submitted my first draft for critique, even though it is not part of the class, as I have mentioned earlier. Hopefully some of my fellow students will read and comment, and possible one of the instructors.