A small writing library
Learn the shape, then make it yours.
Short guides to the forms StoryFeed supports. Nothing here is a test or a rulebook. Use a shape when it gives your writing energy, and leave it behind when the piece wants something else.
Anything
Start without deciding what it is.
Read the guide →Haiku
Three lines, 5–7–5.
Read the guide →Limerick
Five lines, AABBA, and a turn.
Read the guide →Sonnet
Fourteen lines built around a turn.
Read the guide →Script
Scenes, action, characters, and dialogue.
Read the guide →Scene
One place, one stretch of time, one change.
Read the guide →Short story
A complete movement in one sitting.
Read the guide →Chapter
A meaningful piece of something longer.
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Reading closely
The other half of writing here: how to leave a note a writer can actually use.
Read about close readings →The guides are curated for now. Later, this can grow into a place where writers share questions, examples, and discoveries about each form.