Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
It’s 2:15 in the afternoon, time for me to go do my weekly shopping in Bloomfield. I’ll probably stop by Nico’s to see if V is on duty. She works every other Saturday. And since I don’t go there like I use to I lose track of which Saturday she’s there; but I probably shouldn’t [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Let the good times roll! Some pundits blame MTV for the short attention span of viewers. Everywhere we go we are bombarded by information. Multi-tasking is a buzz word for the zip-zip world we live in. There is never enough time. We want and need our data right now. Through the Internet we can connect [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Several days ago I bought four notebooks and a box of #2 medium point pencils. My creative process for writing a flash fiction story has begun. I actually try to “see” the typography of a story on the page. Will it begin with two or three paragraphs of solid description? Will it begin with four [...]
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