How to Write a Good Short Story

"What i was writing is not a scene, it's a sequence of scenes," he says. "I want to get to the scene where my two characters are at an event and something happens." But that's not one scene - there has to be set up before you can write 'the big thing' He adds: For short story writers, we can be a little impatient,. And what i'm realizing with this story is that i have to do a scene to set up why they're going ... Then i have to like paint the picture of the place where they are".