Lynne Cantwell wrote some tips on how to
write good flash fiction here.
Not exact matches
Dina is the assistant managing editor at Compose A Journal of Simply
Good Writing and an editor at
Flash Fiction Magazine.
Good writers can pack a universe into a piece of
flash fiction and bad ones can
write paper - thin characters and hackneyed prose across 200,000 words.
Established in 2003, SmokeLong Quarterly aims to publish the
best flash fiction to the web, whether
written by widely published authors or those new to the craft.
GADM: I like
writing drabbles or
flash fiction best because it takes a lot of work to hit the word count, especially the 100 - word drabbles.
To answer your question, I haven'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.
There will always be a need for
good, tightly -
written flash fiction pieces — miniature condensations that open out the world for and with us.
In a
good flash fiction there is no over
writing because words are at a premium.
Wagner's own website is a catalog of his
writing style, including sample
flash fiction stories that are open to readers, as
well as a purchasable works from short story anthologies and longer titles.
My short story and
flash fiction writing is going
well, I'm roughly 20k words into a slipstream novel set in Lincolnshire and of course I keep revising / submitting the first book in the Strandline series.
This
flash / poem (if there is such a thing) is dedicated to my friend Charli, who in her grief for the recent loss of her best friend asked us to write a 99 word Flash Fiction about a breathless moment, to... Continue read
flash / poem (if there is such a thing) is dedicated to my friend Charli, who in her grief for the recent loss of her
best friend asked us to
write a 99 word
Flash Fiction about a breathless moment, to... Continue read
Flash Fiction about a breathless moment, to... Continue reading →
I just did my first
flash fiction, and appreciate your read and the
good information in this hub to help improve this type of
writing.
These are nowhere near as short as those Chris was able to
write but they are the
best I could come up with given both the Hub Page preferred minimum word count and my ability as a
flash fiction writer.
Nancy Stohlman is the author of three books of
flash fiction, editor of three anthologies of flash fiction, and a prominent instructor of flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fiss
flash fiction, editor of three anthologies of flash fiction, and a prominent instructor of flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fi
fiction, editor of three anthologies of
flash fiction, and a prominent instructor of flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fiss
flash fiction, and a prominent instructor of flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fi
fiction, and a prominent instructor of
flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fiss
flash fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of Best Small Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fi
fiction techniques; Tara Lynn Masih is the founding editor of
Best Small
Fictions anthology series and the Field Guide to
Writing Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fiss
Flash Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the flash collection Fi
Fiction; Lynn Mundell is a co-founder of 100 Word Story and 2017 Wigleaf Top 50; and Grant Faulkner is the author of Pep Talks for Writers and the
flash collection Fiss
flash collection Fissures.
I feel like the
flash fiction I've
written has been
good practice for short stories, but I don't know if the same is true for longer work.
Over the course of this series Nath Jones's
writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-
fiction,
flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough - hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief - Stricken's fully - crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world
well - rendered.
To ease myself back into
writing everyday for 365 days, I'm in search of a
good flash fiction prompt site.
We publish poetry,
fiction,
flash fiction, and creative non-
fiction, inviting all unpublished literature
written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as
well as many forms of visual art.
SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the
best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether
written by widely published authors or those new to the craft.