5 Useful Sayings About Flash Fiction

  1. Flash fiction captures a moment in time.

    Some Of My Old Amateur Photography

  2. A flash fiction writer is someone who can write short on long subjects.
  3. The flash fiction writer presents the dots in such a way that the reader can connect them.
  4. The flash fiction story is really two stories: the surface story and the implied story.
  5. The form of the flash fiction story is the setup, the buildup and the payoff.  It is best to keep the setup short.

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How’s everyone doing?  The Old Soldier took yesterday off from blogging.  It’s around noon and the Steelers play at four.  I’m doing a load of laundry and I still have beer in the refrigerator and money in my checking account.

It’s a wonderful life.

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