Shaping the Short Story

(this post was written by on March 14, 2010, and it concerns & & & )

A piece of fic­tion writing—a short story, for example—has two dis­tinct ele­ments to it. The first we can call syn­chronic, which means exist­ing at one and the same time; the sec­ond is diachronic, which means exist­ing through time. <p>Or to put it another way, a piece of fic­tion writ­ing has both <em>structure</em> and <em>flow.</em></p> <p>Fiction […]

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