Are you a writer and the phrase “show don’t tell” is driving you crazy? You read the phrase in books on writing and your teachers and professors are constantly telling you to “show don’t tell”. What exactly are they talking about? To put it simply, they want you to get your characters moving. They want [...]
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Bill Moyers had a guest on last night on public television who had written a book about the private contractors (Blackwater being the most infamous) that the United States Government uses as security in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of these private soldiers of course is secret, but the writer on Bill Moyers [...]
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As every writer knows if the title of a flash fiction story doesn’t grab the interest of a reader the reader won’t read the story. So, one of the first lessons about writing that a writer learns is to come up with an attention grabbing title. Here are ten titles of real stories. The stories [...]
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It’s the Old Soldier blogging on this beautiful morning in Pittsburgh. If you’re new to the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, the Gazette is all about flash fiction. Writing flash fiction is not easy. If you are a writer who would like to try writing flash fiction, is there any one piece of advice that could get you [...]
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Marriage On A Hot Day In Pittsburgh
I just came from my walk through the park down by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. There was a wedding party at Heinz Chapel. A single bagpiper played, the men in suits and many of the women in long dresses. I couldn’t see the bride and the groom. Many of the dresses of the women [...]
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