One of the benefits of
writing flash fiction with a community of writers comes from getting to know each writer and watching his or her literary art flourish.
I'm finding that I can
write flash fiction unless someone gives me a challenge like write something with the words «street», «strawberries» and «cat litter».
During a session at the conference, the presenter gave us some randomly generated story parts (character, setting, genre) and then gave us twenty or so minutes to
write a flash fiction story about it.
As Pulitzer Prize ‑ winner Robert Olen Butler (a novelist who
also writes flash fiction) has said, «Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.»
For anyone who
enjoys writing flash fiction, the César Egido Serrano Foundation and the Spanish «Museum of Words» have opened their «microfiction» competition, closing date November 23rd 2014.
Leave prompts for me - a prompt can be a word, a phrase, a question, and image, whatever - and I'll
write flash fiction based on them.
The lower - priority goals of revising short stories and
writing flash fiction eclipsed longer writing because they fed into my first priority — earning 50 rejections.
This writing is at the opposite end of the scale to
writing Flash Fiction which may be read in a flash but can take many attempts to whittle away the word count.
As serious writers, you know it's through the editing process that we begin to refine and sculpt our messages.But just
as writing flash fiction requires a different set of skills, so does editing flash fiction.
Today I'm off to teach some excruciatingly bright 3rd / 4th and 5th / 6th graders about the craft
of writing flash fiction.
To answer your question, I have
n't written any flash fiction, and all the short stories I've read are longer than this, but my attempts to emulate the genre have left me with new respect for those who write it and do it well.
You know how I feel
about writing flash fiction and the way it's opened up a new vein of creativity I didn't know existed in my writing, so to know that my memoir writing has opened up yours into personal essay (and reading extracts out at Open Mic...!!)
One unfortunate subtext of this is that the literary writer
who writes flash fiction is abandoning the literary, capitulating to an age of scatterbrains.