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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾"I Will Never Tell You This" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tel...
☾"Solarium" in Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-b...
☾"Barefoot" in The Fiddlehead [print]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾"Wishbone" in PRISM international [print]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾"Wishbone" video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾"Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden" in The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-an...

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - Focus on story, not theme
2:15 - Use specificity
4:37 - The inciting incident
5:27 - Minimize the cast
6:35 - Minimize flashbacks
7:25 - Conflict
8:03 - Core event
8:37 - Compress the timeline
9:15 - Active characters
11:04 - Endings and choice
12:42 - Lift
13:27 - Information reveal

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