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Hi everyone I would like your advice because I am trying to write a novel in which there are numerous short ones attached to it via the minor chaarcters. Also on ideas on how to write short stories would be useful I am trying hard except my main characters don't seem to go anywhere. phil.
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This sounds like the main problem to me. What genre is it? What problem/conflict are the main characters trying to (re)solve? Do you have a beginning and an ending? If you haven't worked these things out, then see if you can. If you can't, then maybe you'd better let your minor characters lead, and write several short stories. Of course, the same questions apply to short stories!
For ideas on how to write short stories, why not look at a collection/an anthology by an author/authors in your preferred genre, and see how he/she/they manage(s) it.
Best of luck!