The Turn
All I want to do is practice narrative turns, so that’s what I want all of you to do, too.
Make a list (or 5, or 10, or 100) of story ideas/premises that you want to write. Find a central image or organizing principle for a few of them. In this heartbreaking piece in Barren, called Strong Enough to Withstand The Loss, the image is the flowers. In this f…