The garden gnomes have room for at least one
more flash fiction story and we're ready to go to press.
Not exact matches
I have also published a few single short
stories as ebooks, as listed below, and my work has been included in many anthologies (see
Flash Fiction page for
more details).
(I've just had a
flash fiction story inspired by our mobile library accepted for a new anthology, Change the Ending, to be published shortly —
more news of that soon!)
Anthologies can provide
more consistency if they stick to a single theme or structure, e.g. all the
stories in the National
Flash Fiction Day anthologies are restricted to 500 words, and all the
stories in Change the Ending (
more of which in a moment) were to do with public services.
• There's also
flash fiction, poetry, and an editorial, plus links to
more of the best
stories and poetry from the «zine's first 20 years.
However, because
flash fiction is so short, there is
more room for
stories that «hug the plot» so to speak, that focus
more on what happened, than on who it happened to.
What I like about lyricists who are truly skilled is that they must write with clarity, brevity, and enable listeners to «fill the gaps» in emotion, atmosphere and ideas, much like the art of writing short
stories, and the
more recent popular
flash fiction (not to mention nano
fiction).
Originally, I had some of my short
stories (
flash fiction and longer short
stories) published in various anthologies in a
more traditional way (write - > slush pile - > accept or reject - > contract - > payment - > promotion).
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Flash fiction: Less than 2,000 words * Short
story: 2,000 - 7,500 words * Novelette: 7,500 - 25,000 words * Novella: 25 - 50,000 words * Novel: 50 - 125,000 words * Epic novel: 200,000 words or
more
For
flash fiction, include no
more than three
stories, each no longer than 1,000 words, in one document.
Flash fiction stories are 250 - 750 words, but this length has
more to do with quality of attention than duration of attention.
There is no asking
more, no premise of comprehensiveness, because
flash fiction is a form that privileges excision over agglomeration...» [iii] One famous example of
flash fiction is Ernest Hemingway's six - word
story: «For sale: baby shoes, never worn.»
His
fiction has been published in the following: Adelaide Literary Magazine; Bethlehem Writers» Roundtable; Freedom Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; an
fiction has been published in the following: Adelaide Literary Magazine; Bethlehem Writers» Roundtable; Freedom
Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; an
Fiction Journal; Full of Crow;
Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; an
Fiction Magazines; Tincture;
Flash: The International Short Short
Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; and
more.
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.
If you're writing
flash fiction, compile two or three or
more stories.
In a frenetic, Twitter - oriented world such as ours,
flash fiction (
stories under 1,000 words) has become increasingly
more popular among writers, publishers, and readers.
The piece in question is an 800 - word short
story, nay, practically a blog post-length work of
flash fiction, that she sat down to write... [Read
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This collection of short
stories,
flash fiction and poetry will be
more heavily weighted to my own work.
Practice I got via almost 100
Flash Fiction stories and two
more novels.
(i.e. Making a short
story into a
flash fiction may make it
more concise and dramatic or it may leave it feeling
more like an outline.
But you are right, applied to
flash fiction, the
stories become much
more powerful.
For a
more conventional length
flash fiction horror
story you may like to read my hub «Dead Bird Everywhere.»
The work has resulted in
more than thirty articles,
stories, blogs and
flash fiction collaborations and over a hundred members attending creative thinking and writing workshops at CIPFA conferences — smashing another stereotypical view of dull, uncreative accountants.
But as soon as we get that one (or
more)
flash fiction story, and maybe one
more short
story or two, then we'll be done reading.
We'd love to get
more flash fiction and short
stories.
We realize it is
more challenging to pen a poem than a short
story or
flash fiction story.
We'll reveal Adele's
flash fiction story to you shortly, but in the meantime, let's come up with
more fun in the form of photo captions.
This week for the
Flash Fiction prompt over at Carrot Ranch, Charli ask us this: «In 99 words (no
more, no less) write a
story that... Continue reading →
The other reason to mention them is because they offer pretty good money for
flash fiction, short
stories, poetry and
more.
This week, Charli's
flash fiction prompt has us looking at gravestones, literally: «October 21, 2015 prompt: In 99 words (no
more, no less) write a
story about a final resting place.
We'll reveal Adele's
flash fiction story to you shortly, but in the meantime, let's come up with
more -LSB-...]
Typically I don't post my
flash fiction as it either is just a work in progress or it is a
story I am attempting to sell / market,... Read
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