It’s time to stop talking about writing and write. The best-selling author of “Prep” and “Rodham” offers a plan. By Curtis Sittenfeld Though some people have knocked out an entire short ...

Can you write a short story in a few sentences? ... And 2021’s winner by Sarah Hilliard: “Imagine yourself as a frog on a lily pad,” the soothing voice murmurs in my ear.

So, it turned out, Ken Fuson could write a short story. Now about that sentence: a single, glorious, 280-word catalog of vernal ecstasy.