short stories: PX90 for your writer's brain

I'm
a novelist by nature; I tell epic sagas. But at this distance, I can say I
learnt the most about plot structure by writing short pieces, both stories and
nonfiction essays. A story is, after all, a thematic argument, and if you don't
know how to structure a convincing essay, neither will you be able to write a compelling story.



I remember distinctly the first two stories I wrote that I