Her writing has appeared in CHEAP POP, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Narratively, NANO Fiction, and Smokelong Quarterly's «
Why Flash Fiction» Series, among others.
«5 Reasons
Why Flash Fiction Is Good For You.»
Not exact matches
Amanda Saint had a chance to sopeak with him, and here's what Richard had to say about
flash fiction: Flash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years, why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and wri
flash fiction:
Flash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years, why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and wri
Flash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years,
why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and writers?
[v] Later in the essay, he explains
why students haven't heard of
flash fiction: few readers outside of the professional literary community read it.
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.»
Flash fiction differs from other short written works in that it generally features a traditional story arc — an evocative scene that doesn't have a beginning, middle or end wouldn't qualify, which is
why it's a tough medium to tackle.
And so we condescend when we read it, don't quite take it seriously, which may be in part
why good
flash fiction is constantly so surprising, so startling, so likely to give us our comeuppance.
Today I want to talk about
flash fiction and
why I think writers, especially beginning writers, should think about writing more of it.
A few weeks back, Jim Harrington did a blog post at
Flash Fiction Chronicles on WHY WRITE FLASH FIC
Flash Fiction Chronicles on WHY WRITE FLASH F
Fiction Chronicles on
WHY WRITE
FLASH FIC
FLASH FICTIONFICTION.
So it is your job as a player to dig deeper into the story which
flashes back and forth, think Pulp
Fiction, where you jump back and forth in the story, and try to find out everything that has been told to you and
why you are the way you are and who Aiden is and
why he is following you.