Before he got very far along in the art of the storiette, martin worked out half a dozen stock forms, which he always consulted when constructing storiettes 研究小故事写作技巧后不久，马丁搞出了华打固定的模式，常常用来作编写参考。这些模式像巧妙的数学表格，可以从上面下面。
His machine-made storiettes, though he hated them and derided them, were successful . by means of them he redeemed all his pledges, paid most of his bills, and bought a new set of tires for his wheel 它们给他赎回了当掉的东西，偿付了大部分欠债，给他的自行车买了一副新轮胎，还使他免于断炊之虞，给了他时间写作雄心勃勃的作品。
Stored away under his table were the twenty storiettes which had been rejected by the newspaper short-story syndicate . he read them over in order to find out how not to write newspaper storiettes, and so doing, reasoned out the perfect formula 报纸小故事供稿社退回的那二十来篇小故事还塞在桌子底下，他又翻出来读了一遍，想找出写作失败的原因。
Stored away under his table were the twenty storiettes which had been rejected by the newspaper short-story syndicate . he read them over in order to find out how not to write newspaper storiettes, and so doing, reasoned out the perfect formula 报纸小故事供稿社退回的那二十来篇小故事还塞在桌子底下，他又翻出来读了一遍，想找出写作失败的原因。
He signed the new contract, inserting " the smoke of joy " in the blank space, and mailed it back to the publishers along with the twenty storiettes he had written in the days before he discovered the formula for the newspaper storiette 他签署了新的合同，在空白处填上了欢的轻烟，寄给了出版人，又把他早在发现写作报纸小小说的公式之前写的二十篇小小说一起寄了去。
