by Kathy Edens Aug 09, 2018 People change. Who you were as a young teenager is hopefully different from your adult self. Perhaps you changed and grew into a more mature, self-confident, and accomplished person thanks to your experiences in life. Or maybe you went through a nasty divorce and now can’t trust anyone. And think about […]
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What exactly IS flash fiction? That’s an excellent question. And depending on who you ask, you’ll get a very different answer. For Flash Fiction Online purposes, we consider flash fiction to be a very short story with a complete character arc written within the confines of 500-1000 words. We know that’s asking a lot (and that’s part
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By Denise Ganley Here are thirteen specific tricks (and a writing exercise) about how to write flash fiction (including insanely short stories).* 1. Take out all unnecessary words. Practice on Twitter. I kid you not, and I speak from experience. Nothing shows you how to whittle down a sentence to the key elements better than Twitter.
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BY BEN YAGODA MAY 21, 2012 9:17 PM May 21, 2012 9:17 pm As I noted in my earlier article, rules and conventions about when to use and not to use commas are legion. But certain errors keep popping up. Here are a few of them. Identification Crisis If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a
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