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How to Write a Novella - With Paul Michael Anderson

litreactor.com – Thursday February 6, 2025

When the newly reformed LitReactor asked if I’d be interested in writing a how-to article on novellas, my knee-jerk answer (to myself) was: “How the hell should I know?” It’s a strange answer, one I should probably unpack with my therapist at some point, because — putting my own neuroses aside — I do know how to write them.

As of 2025, I’ve written five novellas: Bones Are Made To Be BrokenStandaloneHow We Broke (with Bracken MacLeod), The Only Way Out Is Through, and You Can’t Save What Isn’t There — and only one of them was a whoopsie-daisy, didn’t see a novella there, son. With the other four, it was deliberate action; I wasn’t creating a short story or developing a novel, I was writing a novella, and I knew it.

On that note, allow me to show you how it’s done.

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