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“Anne Leigh Parrish, fiction editor for Eclectica magazine, says, “A story is not a nice description of how things are. It’s not a sensibility, or a mood. While those elements surely contribute to a story, a story itself is a narrative where there must be a change in the reader’s understanding of the events, or in the protagonist’s understanding. You leave a story seeing something you didn’t see at the outset, something that makes sense of what’s come before.”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

“Most short fiction falls into one of three categories: stories of conflict, stories of decision, or stories of discovery…The story of conflict is the record of a goal-motivated fight.”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining. Show me moonlight reflected on broken glass. –Anton Chekov”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication

“According to Jack Bickham, “Most short fiction falls into one of three categories: stories of conflict, stories of decision, or stories of discovery…”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication