story-shaped

Back before books were matrices of quark traces arranged into story-shaped cluster patterns, they were physical objects sold in shops or “shoppes” where humans or “people” manifested their biological presences and engaged in activities referred to as “shopping” or “browsing” or “killing time at the bookstore.”

Greg: Bookstores I have loved « 2009

But there are occasional story-moments in your life, little bits that are story-shaped — if I may borrow the term –, a scene in a novel you never knew was going on.

A Nice Life « Morgan Dempsey 2008

I learned very quickly that having an idea was the easy part, that the putting the idea into story-shaped form on paper was where the work came in.

Archive 2010-02-01 Kat Howard 2010

I learned very quickly that having an idea was the easy part, that the putting the idea into story-shaped form on paper was where the work came in.

You don't need to steal. I will give them to you. Kat Howard 2010

The original Maxim Nikomedes adventure, "The Political Officer," should appear for free on the F&SF website any hour now, just like a story-shaped party favor.

Because my birthday is a national holiday raecarson 2008

It was written for a anthology of true life ghost stories, and is not "story-shaped" as Gaiman so eloquently puts it.

Short Story Sunday.....on Monday Part II Stephanie 2007

It was written for a anthology of true life ghost stories, and is not "story-shaped" as Gaiman so eloquently puts it.

Archive 2007-09-01 Stephanie 2007

The Romantic period is often thought to be the moment during which the world became especially story-shaped, and if not entirely teleological, then playing with the notions of ends and beginnings in the ways suggested by the "to be continued" openness of the Romance genre.

'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

I’ve conquered half of Fragile Things, and Gaiman is right: not everything is story-shaped.

December « 2007 « Morgan Dempsey 2007

I’ve conquered half of Fragile Things, and Gaiman is right: not everything is story-shaped.

I Wrote This In the Air « Morgan Dempsey 2007