Short story
Short story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.
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Writing and short story are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Writing" instead a noun phrase "Short story".
Writing
Writing noun - Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.
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Synonyms for Writing
Short story and writing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Short story" instead a noun "Writing".
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- In the Gene Wolfe short story My Book, the narrator is writing a book starting with the last word and working backwards.
Source: Constrained Writing - And once, Kishon wrote a story about how he procrastinates writing a funny short story... which ended up becoming a funny short story, though it's hard to tell how and when.
Source: Creator / Ephraim Kishon -
In The City of Dreaming Books, the most perfect piece of writing is a short story about the author dealing with writer's block.
Source: Writer's Block
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