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Approximately ten to twenty hours of time. We all write at different paces, and depending on the length of your story (e.g. 100-word micro fiction or 200-word flash fiction vs. 5,000-word traditional short story) it might take five hours or fifty. But I’ve found that most short stories in the 3,000- to 5,000-word range take ten to twenty hours.