What makes short stories different from novels? Aside from the obvious difference in length?

And what can novelists learn from short stories?

In this episode, I'm breaking down 3 structural elements of short stories, along with an example of how it's done.

 If you're writing short stories, you'll learn how to organize and shape your material.

And if you're writing a novel or memoir, you're  going to get tons of value from this, too. 

Because we'll be talking about how to  articulate and build conflict as an organizing structure.

This will help you shape chapters and scenes. Most important, this episode will help you learn the economy of language. So you can write any story with more elegance, shape, and potency.

Whether you aspire to write short stories or novels, you'll learn how to use repetition and variation to amplify your story’s conflict and theme.

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