Periagoge
Course

Short fiction and the short form: What Nobody Tells You: Discover what practitioners know instinctively but don't always teach—the unspoken rules, the common misconceptions, the hidden advantages that short fiction offers to those who understand it. You'll learn what separates published stories from drafts that almost work.

Uncover the unspoken rules of short fiction that separate published stories from near-misses. Master what successful writers know instinctively but rarely

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Concepts in this course
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Aesthetic Distance and Emotional Proximity
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Courtly Subtext and Social Performance
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Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
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Seasonal Correspondence and Emotional State
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Sensory Precision as Emotional Language
AI prompts in this course
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Where Are You with Short fiction and the short form?
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What Would Change if You Got Short fiction and the short form Right?
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If You're Honest About Short fiction and the short form...
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Short fiction and the short form and the Choices You're Making
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What's Holding You Back with Short fiction and the short form?
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Creativity
Mura guides you through this course personally — adapting to your situation, not a script.