How to Structure a Short Story, part 1

a simple structure that (almost) always works

I’d like to tell you about a simple, five part story structure that works for short stories in any genre. I learned this more than twenty years ago while teaching for Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City — back when you saw those yellow Gotham boxes on every street corner. It has served me well ever since, both as a writer of short stories and as a…