“Writing short on long subjects” is one of the best definitions I’ve come across about what the writer of the short short, flash fiction and very short story does. I don’t know where I came across the saying but it stuck with me.
These short narratives that the very short story writer writes are not meant to capture the big picture. The big picture is for the novel. Sudden fiction captures the very small picture. The best of these small pictures “imply” a larger picture.
And “picture” is not a word that is used in this article by accident. Picture implies something that is to be looked at as in “show don’t tell.”
To “show don’t tell” the creative writer must use words to paint a picture that tells a story.
The Modern American Woman (A Short Story) www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Modern-American-Woman.632185
