A Nude Woman And The Secret To Writing Great Flash Fiction

Probably the most important thing for a writer to understand about flash fiction is that there must be some kind of narrative movement that leads to a resolution of some kind.  And since flash fiction is so short, the narrative movement is usually small in order to make the resolution believable; but here’s the catch.  Even though the narrative movement is small it is about something important that happens during the story.

A husband making love to his wife is not flash fiction.  A husband making love to his wife and realizing something for the first time about their marriage is flash fiction.

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