One shot (comic)
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In the comic industry, a one-shot is a piece that is created as a pilot comic or stand-alone story. Many artists publish one-shots to test a possible new story, or to express information that would not fit with the story arc of a multiple-issue monthly series, particularly a long-running regular series. In the Japanese manga industry, the same concept is expressed by the term yomikiri (読み切り), which roughly translates to "that's all there is to read."
One-shots in fanfiction
One-shot can also refer to a short anime story, or a short piece of fan fiction, where a fan fiction piece would only last one chapter. Recently, this usage has expanded to refer to any one chapter piece of literature, although one-shot is generally only used in this way for electronic literature.
One-shots in fanfiction are self-contained stories that are meant to be only one chapter long. They're usually divided into one of the following sections:
- A one-time event, like a climatic battle scene.
- The beginning or the end of a romantic relationship.
- A character study, or an introspective look into the psyche of the character.
There is also no definite style for one-shots in fanfiction. Songfics are usually one-shots, but one will find an often more diverse group of writing styles in one-shots. Styles or points of view that don't work in longer, chaptered stories, such as present tense, second person p.o.v. or monologues, are far more frequent in one-shot fanfictions.
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