Unlocking Hidden Power: How Tiny Details in Form and Structure Transform Your Writing’s Impact
Finally, remember that you can amplify your themes on many scales. Your themes can direct you to the overall form and structure of a particular piece, but also to something as large-scale as the shape of your book or as small-scale as your sentence structure.
My focus on the seemingly small stories of the girls and women I grew up with and the ways the world expected them to live small lives influenced not only the length of these flash essays, but also the size of the collection itself, which only runs about one-hundred pages. I wanted smallness to be present in every aspect of the reading process, from the length of time it takes readers to move through an essay to the way the book feels in their hands.
