Are we talking about Short Stories? From my point of view, they are a great testing ground for those who would like to start writing and perhaps to face a part of themselves that they do not yet know. When I wrote my first short story, it was the first time I tried my hand at writing, I saw that blank sheet of paper in front of me and I have to say it gave me a little bit of performance anxiety so much so that at one point I thought – but who’s making me do this? – I also looked around, no one saw me, sigh of relief but still I had to write that first word. The strange thing was that in writing that first word, many others followed and I went on without stopping for a single moment, which is perhaps exaggerated because I was stopping to eat, go to the bathroom, hang out with friends, listen to music and go to sleep. Basically that first word unlocked millions of other words in my head and heart.
The performance anxiety was gone as well as the doubts, and I could really get to know a part of me because I was writing, without meaning to, parts of my life that I had even forgotten. From that day, with that short story, I realized that there is a special magic that allows words to come to me, to flood me and amaze me with what I write as if I were not the one writing it.
Basically, I wrote a short story with the title Short Stories.
Simple.
And if anyone feels like writing, we are ready to read it.
