| Summary: | The author had spoken to many short story writers, and most indicated they would have liked to have had a handbook of some sort to guide them in the process; this book is Gallishaw's version of a short story handbook, which focuses on his four discoveries for short story writers. These include the relationship between functional and structural norms, the addition of the structural unit called scene, how the main character must either make a decision or accomplish something, and finally, how a short story is told either chronologically of through flashbacks. Companion volume to the author's "Twenty problems of the fiction writer : a series of lectures on the craftsmanship of the modern short-story".
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