{"id":29793,"date":"2022-06-10T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?p=29793"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:03:17","slug":"short-form-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write short-form storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cut a long story short<\/h2>\n<p>In <em>The Emperor of All Maladies<\/em>, Siddhartha Mukherjee shares this tiny tale:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29794\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29794\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling\/short-form-storytelling\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"short-form-storytelling\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short story&lt;\/strong&gt; Master short-form content for today\u2019s attention spans.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling-300x200.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" alt=\"Short form storytelling\" title=\"Short form storytelling\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29794 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png 450w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling-300x200.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 450px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 450\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29794\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling\/short-form-storytelling\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"short-form-storytelling\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short story&lt;\/strong&gt; Master short-form content for today\u2019s attention spans.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling-300x200.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png\" alt=\"Short form storytelling\" title=\"Short form storytelling\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling.png 450w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/short-form-storytelling-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Short story<\/strong> Master short-form content for today\u2019s attention spans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"excerptbox\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\">In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son\u2019s baseball team.<\/div>\n<p>In just 61 words, Mukherjee gives us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2013\/07\/motivation-will-do\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Motivation<\/strong><\/a>. The subject wants to live to see his daughter graduate from high school. The motivation is what gets the story started.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2013\/07\/obstacles-among-elements-of-storytelling\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obstacle<\/strong><\/a>. The subject has multiple myeloma, a cancer that starts in the plasma cells in bone marrow. That\u2019s what gives the story its tension: the conflict between the motivation and obstacle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Result<\/strong>. He lives to see her graduate, not only from high school, but from college! But, making this success bittersweet, he\u2019s bound to a wheelchair.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2010\/06\/punch-out-your-punch-line\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Punch line<\/strong><\/a>. Surprise! He\u2019s in a wheelchair because he was in a baseball-coaching accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Master writers can engage raiders with emotional, compelling stories in just a few words. In fact, a short-form story may well be more effective than long-form storytelling in social media and other channels.<\/p>\n<h3>1. All the lonely people \u2026<\/h3>\n<h5>\u201cI once wrote a 75,000-word series on local hospital politics, after which a wise friend said, \u2018Walt, you cannot exhaust a subject but you can exhaust a reader.\u2019\u201d<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Walt Harrington, former staff writer for <em>The Washington Post Magazine<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>The Beatles\u2019 song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/beatles\/eleanorrigby.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eleanor Rigby<\/a>\u201d has only 179 words. Yet the song contains three stories \u2014 and a chorus.<\/p>\n<p>Can you do as much with so little?<\/p>\n<h3>2. Snowball, Snowball<\/h3>\n<p>I still remember \u2014 more than a decade later \u2014 one of the thousand heartbreaking stories about Hurricane Katrina victims, an AP report about the Superdome evacuation:<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"standalone\">Many people had dogs, and they could not take them on the bus. A police officer took one from a little boy, who cried until he vomited. \u201cSnowball, Snowball,\u201d he cried.<\/h5>\n<h3>3. Portraits of grief<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/us\/sept-11-reckoning\/portraits-of-grief.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> Portraits of Grief series<\/a> tells the stories of every single person who died in the 9\/11 attacks. Here\u2019s the life of Eddie D\u2019Atri, stitched together from just 157 words:<\/p>\n<div class=\"excerptbox\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\">Lynda Mari was painting her porch last fall when she was approached by a construction worker with an extension cord.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, I\u2019m Eddie,\u201d he said. \u201cYou mind if I borrow your power?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie D\u2019Atri was a handsome, muscular fellow. \u201cI told him, \u2018You can borrow anything you want,\u2019\u201d Ms. Mari said the other day.<\/p>\n<p>She asked him if he was a fireman. \u201cI just felt it,\u201d she said. \u201cSomething just told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told her no, he was just a working man, but she didn\u2019t believe it. Her brother is a fireman, and something deep inside her made her fearful of falling in love with a guy like that.<\/p>\n<p>But she did. They were engaged June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. D\u2019Atri was 38. He studied nursing and was a lieutenant at Squad 1 in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He was crowned Mr. Staten Island in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, steel is stronger than muscle, and Mr. D\u2019Atri leaves behind a broken heart.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How did reporters pull off these tiny profiles? <em>Times<\/em> editors write:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe portraits were never meant to be obituaries in any traditional sense. They were brief, informal and impressionistic, often centered on a single story or idiosyncratic detail. They were not intended to recount a person\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but rather to give a snapshot of each victim\u2019s personality, of a life lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for mini portraits that weigh in at roughly 200 words each.<\/p>\n<h3>Cut a long story short.<\/h3>\n<p>Cutting a long story short is often a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/writing-tips\/what-is-readability\/short-content\/story-angle\/\">selection<\/a>, not <a href=\"https:\/\/revvingupreadership.com\/2020\/11\/how-to-write-concisely-for-tight-copy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">compression<\/a>. So start by focusing your story angle as tightly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Would your story be twice as good if it were half as long? 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