I saw another episode of Neil Gaiman's writing masterclass yesterday in which he talked about short stories. A nice idea he brought up is that a short story can be seen as "the ending to a book you never wrote", or the beginning, or a snippet of something that happens somewhere in the middle. You go up to it, you experience it, and then you go on your way without needing to elaborate further. This clicked with me because I've always considered myself a collector of what I call "vignettes". Th...
