When Jesus was born, I thought he had a caul; but with his first cry, it began to glow. 

Whether it’s using rep­e­ti­tious sen­tences to uni­fy a piece, com­pressed sen­tences with­out excess words, or descrip­tive sen­tences that make the piece come alive, your par­tic­u­lar sen­tences are what make up each sto­ry.

As with a nar­ra­tive of any length, arc & res­o­lu­tion should devel­op organ­i­cal­ly (or at least appear to devel­op organ­i­cal­ly) in ser­vice of the sto­ry

So you wrote a nar­ra­tive flash. So it’s lack­ing the tight body struc­ture and detail of that flash star you’ve always wor­shiped. How do you update it with a fresh look and stay in the cor­rect for­mat? Maybe you can con­sult the beau­ty of nar­ra­tive flash bone struc­ture from Joanne Mer­ri­am. Her sto­ry Facial Deficits […]

The first suc­cess­ful hand trans­plant recip­i­ent refused to take his immuno­sup­pres­sive drugs, his body reject­ed the hand, and it was ampu­tat­ed at his request. 

How do we find new and sur­pris­ing ways to write about famil­iar top­ics like love, lone­li­ness, or rejec­tion?

In an online thread some­one had post­ed, “this thread has legs like a mil­li­pede.” So I fol­lowed that with, “or legs like Kate Moss.”

Peo­ple hud­dle in their base­ments like kit­tens.

They only have so much space in a sto­ry to make an impres­sion.

As writ­ers, we should strive to struc­ture our own sto­ries as mas­ter­ful­ly as Weber does here.