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		<title>How To Write Dialogue For Erotic Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the editor/publisher of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, the Old Soldier gets to critique lots of flash fiction, some of it erotic flash fiction.  My critiques are always short but I hope helpful. I might write, &#8220;This is a well-written sex scene but there is no story.&#8221; Or I might write, &#8220;The Pittsburgh Flash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=23808&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Flash Fiction: Without Conflict There Is No Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 10:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any other form of fiction, the flash fiction short story at its core is about conflict.  Now sometimes the conflict is so low-key that the word &#8220;tension&#8221; might be a better description of what is going on; but whether we use the word &#8220;conflict&#8221; or &#8220;tension&#8221; there is a thread that runs through the story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=23772&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Flash Fiction: Keep It Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Old Soldier likes to use the alphabet as an analogy on how to write flash fiction.  Stay with me now. A novel goes from &#8220;A&#8221; to &#8220;Z&#8221;. A short story can go anywhere from &#8220;A&#8221; to &#8220;E&#8221; or even &#8220;F&#8221;. A flash fiction story only goes from &#8220;A&#8221; to &#8220;B&#8221;. Or to put my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=23676&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman&#8217;s Naked Butt And Tips On Writing Great Dialogue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the Old Soldier&#8217;s second post in less than four hours.  I&#8217;m on a roll! It&#8217;s around 11:00 am and the Old Soldier just finished off a salad for breakfast and he&#8217;s back at the workstation.  Sunlight is pouring through my windows and I&#8217;ve got the 24-hour news station on the radio. Life is good. Dialogue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=23633&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Explicit Should Your Flash Fiction Sex Story Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Old Soldier has written some flash fiction sex stories that are out-and-out porn.  There is no way of getting around that. It wasn&#8217;t always that way.  For years I tried to imitate Hemingway.  And Hemingway is Literature with a capital &#8220;L&#8221;.  But literary flash fiction was not bringing readers to the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=22645&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep This In Mind As You Write Your Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how short a flash fiction story is, it is still a complete short story.  The thing that makes it complete is narrative movement.  Narrative movement means that something must be different by the end of the story.  What is different can be something as simple as the last sentence clarifying what the story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=22486&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compressionism: The Purpose Of Description In Flash Fiction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description in the flash fiction short story serves a very important service.  It should always be &#8220;intentional.&#8221;  What does the Old Soldier mean by intentional? It should always serve a higher purpose. In Compressionism, which is the use of words to paint a picture that tells a story, description acts like exposition.  Exposition explains things, exposition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=21974&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Flash Fiction: More On Compressionism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Compressionism?  It is the use of words to paint a picture that tells a story.  The Old Soldier came up with the term &#8220;Compressionism&#8221; to suggest how tight a flash fiction story must be if it is to be a good flash fiction story. A good flash fiction story is really two short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=21910&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy Of Writing Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What drives a writer to write flash fiction?  Why not write a poem or a play?  Why not write a novel? Why would a writer impose a limit of, oh let&#8217;s say 700 words, on the length of his or her short story?  Doesn&#8217;t this word limit also limit what the writer can write about?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=21805&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Flash Fiction Be Performance Art, Too?</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com/2012/03/19/can-flash-fiction-be-performance-art-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash fiction at its very best is performance art; I&#8217;m talking about a unique kind of flash fiction.  I&#8217;m talking about Compressionism. Compressionism is the use of words to paint a picture that tells a story.  Often times, when a writer is faced with telling a story in a few hundred words, the writer may feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com&#038;blog=4918046&#038;post=21772&#038;subd=pittsburghflashfictiongazette&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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