Sentences with phrase «define flash fiction»
We define flash fiction as a short story told in fewer than 1,000 words.
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Like Hitchcock's mantra that films can not exceed the holding time of the average filmgoer's bladder or Poe's insistence that the short story last not one more floor - board thudding heartbeat beyond the average reader's notion of a «sitting» (whatever that is), flash fiction has been hastily defined in terms of its least vital statistic — not what it does, or what it says, but what it looks like.
The question of what makes the story «matter» is perhaps best described as the «dramatic imperative,» defined in Randall Brown's A Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction as «the reason for a story's existence, the why of its being, of this moment's being chosen over all the others.»
The writers of flash fiction also have a hand in helping to refine it, define it, and extend it, and such writing is constantly reconfiguring and metamorphosing before our very eyes.
It is for flash fiction, which they define as between 250 — 750 words.
Some flash fiction advocates add a smaller category called micro-flash and define that as anything under 500 words or even under 100 words.