“In graduate school, my adviser Ethan Canin taught my classmates and me to think of fiction in terms of structure (the order of scenes, what happens in them, how information is revealed), character (what we learn about the people depicted through their actions, observations, and dialogue), and language (how the sentences do or don’t work).” (Curtis Sittenfeld and Heidi Pitlor, The Best American Short Stories 2020)
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