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Reading and writing flash fiction has ruined me for the reading of long short stories and novels.
Hello, bloggers, creative writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics. After all these years of being exposed to flash fiction, I find myself getting impatient even when reading the newspaper. I’ll skip a news story that seems longer than a few hundred words rather than read it to the end.
If a good flash fiction writer can make a point in a few hundred words, why can’t everyone else. Of course, my rational mind knows that some subjects need more than a few hundred words to be covered in-depth, but my shadow mind doesn’t want to accept this.
What’s the cure? There ain’t no cure. There’s only the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.
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Never Start A Story This Way
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Novice writers often make this mistake. Don’t you make it.
Hello hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers, creative writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics. When I was teaching at the University of Pittsburgh as a grad student I was thankful that none of my writing students turned in a short story that began with the protagonist waking up in bed and thinking about life.
And don’t you do it either. Doing it is the equivalent of having dead air on the radio. It’s the equivalent of starting a one hundred-yard dash standing straight up instead of being done in the starting blocks. It’s the equivalent of waiting for a bus with a group of other people and then when the bus arrives you get on the bus and only then start searching for your bus fare instead of getting on the bus with your money in your hand.
Don’t do it.
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