Sentences with phrase «most flash fiction»

Most flash fiction markets don't pay at all, but the garden gnomes are at least willing to pay $ 5 for the best monthly story that meets the strictures of three arbitrary criteria, namely:

One major or supporting character per every 300 - 500 words is a good metric, and most flash fiction stories only have one setting.

Since most flash fiction pieces are really too short to be over-plotted, I tend to start with the pantser method, and revise once done.

Not exact matches

The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down is a collection of flash fiction that conveys entire worlds that are haunting, sad, funny, touching, and strange in the most enlivening, beautiful ways.

«Like the most diligent of cultural anthropologists, the editors of Flash Fiction International have sifted through centuries of micro art to record and then exhibit these enduring small stories, common in their humanity but culturally distinct in their presentations.

While this style works for flash fiction and some short stories, it doesn't work for most longer form writing.

I would also say flash fiction is related to poetry, but only when it comes to the economic use of the most effective words and by creating impressions in the mind of the reader, forcing the reader to «sense» the story.

Certainly I remember my favorite flash fictions as clearly and immediately as my most vivid personal memories.

When I mention flash fiction to non-writers, most have no idea what I'm talking about.

They are for the most part perfectly amiable in contemplation of this putative reader, whom I imagine is reading a flash fiction while texting a friend with one hand, playing Angry Birds with the other, and filming her breakfast behind Google Glass.

Critical thinking about short forms also began to appear, on sites like Double Room and FlashFictionNet, but the emphasis in the United States has always been on the creative and practical: the most popular topic about flash fiction is how to write it.

Publish something every month (at least 12 publications)-- most of these will probably be short stories or flash fiction anthologies, but I also intend to be working on some longer - format fiction, and probably some non-fiction too.

Though I combed through my most recent flash fiction piece (set to debut in the holiday issue of Splickety Magazine) with unparalleled obsession, I sent it to two authors whom I trust for their review as well.

Of anyone in the world, I should be the most likely person to not need an editor for my own flash fiction, right?

It took me most of that day and about half of the next to stuff my pride back where it belonged (which is saying a lot, since it was the American Christian Fiction Writers conference... we're not supposed to flash a lot of pride).

The most success (okay, probably more like ONLY) has been for anthologies — like the Indies Unlimited 2012 Flash Fiction Anthology (for example)-- allowing the participating authors to get copies close to my cost.

The Indies Unlimited 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology Available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and most online bookstores.

Flash fiction seems to suit today's readers preferences though looking at the results of the survey most prefer short stories to anything else.

I had a few things come out, but I'd really like to use most of this space to promote the stories in Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader).

This collection of flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essays illustrate an imaginative new take on one of the most famous literary tales in history.

JM: One thing I like most about flash fiction is there really are no rules per se.

After writing flash fiction, most writers discover that all their writing improves as a result.

The garden gnomes believe flash fiction has become popular enough that most people know what it is by now.

I've been writing a lot of flash fiction lately, but most gets done at the last minute.

The competition, which has applied for a Guiness World Record as the most lucrative international literary prize, awards $ 20,000 to the winning flash fiction piece (of 100 words or less), as well as $ 2,000 each to the Runners Up in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.

I've written a few pieces of flash fiction and one short story where I somehow «magically» landed on the perfect story that was finished being told in only 3000 words — but that one was most definitely a fluke since I can't seem to be able to do it again on demand.

When writing your fictional stories, they will take shape in one of the following basic forms, each varying in length / word count: Novels Novellas Short Stories Flash Fiction The obvious difference, for the most part, is their word count / length.

Here's where you can find my most recent flash fiction, and mad luv to the fab folks over at Out of the Gutter who took it!

This publisher of short fiction, poetry, and flash fiction responds to most submissions within a week.