Use these guides to help keep your writing sweet (or sour)
Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion by Courttia Newland and Tania Hershman
Write Short Stories and Get Them Published by Zoe Fairbairns
On Writing Short Stories. Edited by Tom Bailey.
Writing Short Stories: A Routledge Writer’s Guide by Ailsa Cox
Have a look at ‘Write a Novel’ – in the Teach Yourself series. Chapter 3 gives you an overview of narrative structure.
Lisa Cron discusses how story works in ‘Story Genius’.
Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market – lists markets in North America.
The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook – lists markets in the UK
As well as the above, I recommend Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, The World in a Flash by Calum Kerr, No Contacts? No Problem? by Catherine Quinn, The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron, and The Beginner’s Guide to Getting Published by Chriss Maccallum.
For an overview of literary citizenship, try The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman (2018) and Dan Blank’s Be The Gateway.