Sorry that Part 2 is so late. It has been a difficult week. I might even post about it, but who knows… Listen to your subconscious mind Your subconscious mind is very powerful. Relax and write the raw words that form in your head as fast as you can. Within the subconscious mind are stored […]
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The Flash Writing Technique is something I’ve used over the years to help new writers to relax and trust their muse, and help seasoned writers stop over thinking and get out of their own way. It is a combination of rules and suggestions from other authors, most notably Natalie Goldberg, the author of one of
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Flash Fiction Flash: The Newsletter for Flash Literature Writers is a monthly newsletter edited by Pamelyn Casto, one of the gurus in the field of writing flash literature. This newsletter features a list of paying flash fiction markets and contests, links to articles and interviews about writing and publishing flash, and publishing news. Subscribe by
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Columbus Writing Contest – Flash Fiction: Shoes Here’s a nice little contest sponsored by our capital city here in Ohio. No entry fee and a chance for some Amazon gift cards. Here are some of the details directly from the page: Your task is to submit a story of 2500 characters (about 500 words) or
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Read a lot of it before you write When you read a lot of fiction in the flash fiction form, you naturally absorb the form and write in it. Reading flash fiction is the best way to get a feel for the form. Read between 25 and 50 flash fiction stories, and select the five
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“South Florida Flash” Writing Contest The WLRN-Miami Herald News is sponsoring a flash writing contest to help promote the upcoming Miami International Book Fair in November. Word Limit: Up to 305 words Deadline: Monday, November 13, 2011 by 6pm Subject/Content: According to the contest site: “Submissions can be fiction or non-fiction, poetic prose or prosaic
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Flash fiction contains most of the following elements in every single story: Brevity — Flash fiction tells a complete story in 1,000 words or less. Sometimes a lot less words. Many markets want stories that are 750, 500, or 100 words long. Some contests, such the annual 55 Fiction contest, require even fewer words. With
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Flash fiction is good for writers. Many best-selling authors such as David Foster Wallace, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, and John Updike have, in recent years, produced fiction in this format. But writers have always embraced the short-short story form. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Anton Chekhov have all written flash fiction.
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Flash fiction is exactly what it sounds like — fiction that can be read in a flash. It has been here for centuries under a variety of aliases: myths, fables, parables, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, tall tales, and legends. It also appears in the modern age under names such as: ghost stories, urban legends, gossip
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What is this site about? There are now many sites devoted to flash fiction and many of which contain advice on how to write flash fiction, flash non-fiction and flash-memoir (AKA flash writing). Flash fiction has really exploded in popularity since I began researching and writing my book in 2004. There are now hundreds of
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I created this site back in 2004 to support my book Flash Writing: How to Write, Revise and Publish Stories Less Than 1000 Words Long. I always intended for it to be a destination for everything surrounding writing flash fiction. Filled with articles for writing flash fiction (of which there were very few of back
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Flash fiction tips | Write On Edge. A great article explaining some of the basic decisions that you have to make as a flash fiction writer in order to make it easier to create a story within the word limit.
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