More Creative Ideas, Serious Writing And Brazen Sexuality

 

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Recently, a friend of mine on Facebook suggested to me that there was no need for the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette to offer so much brazen sexuality if the creative ideas and serious writing were good enough.

That would be like me telling Lady Gaga to stop acting and dressing so outrageously and just to sing.

Needless to say, my Facebook friend is neither an entertainer or the publisher of an online magazine.

Next month the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette will be four years old.  And it will continue to focus on creative ideas, serious writing and brazen sexuality.

Check out the front page and you will see immediately what I mean. 

This is the Old Soldier reporting from Pittsburgh.

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Creative Writing: Ways To Recharge Your Imagination

Let’s not call it writer’s block.  But there are times when a writer has to recharge his or her imaginative batteries.

I’s the Old Soldier here with another issue of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, the most fun reading you can find in a publication that deals with flash fiction.

How’s everyone doing?

It’s around noon in Pittsburgh.  The high will be 85 on a lovely, sunny day.  I haven’t been out yet.  I want to get this post up first.  So far I’ve had three cans of beer, a fish sandwich with lots of hot sauce and I’ve watched Face The Nation and some other Sunday news show on television about the 2012 American presidential election, the Euro crisis and Facebook’s IPO (Initial Public Offering). 

underword: flash fiction

underword: flash fiction (Photo credit: piglicker)

What does any of this have to do with writing flash fiction?

Well, a flash fiction writer does not live in a vacuum.  So, it has a lot to do with writing flash fiction.  But a writer’s personal life (family, friends, job, school and significant other) has even more to do with his or her flash fiction.

The Old Soldier would like to leave you with this: live your life to the fullest.  That’s the best way to recharge your creative batteries.  That way, you’ll have something to write about.

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The discouraged Nenene suffering from writer's...

The discouraged Nenene suffering from writer’s block continues to lament the disappearance of Yomiko (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Here’s another way to recharge your creative writing batteries.  Click the follow button or take out a free subscription to the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.  This publication is definitely not for everyone.  There’s too much sex.  But it might be just right for you.

Poetry: December Rain

şeref sisThe computer screen…

The refrigerator hum…

          Wet pavement outside

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I phoned the Matriarch earlier today and she said my brother Lloyd is at the airport.  He flew in from Palo Alto, California.  The Matriarch lives with my older sister in Greensburg, about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh.  Sis was the one who told me that I might be eligible for a military pension.  Bless her.  Sis still looking out for her baby brother.  That military pension has changed my life.  Her husband is a Korean War veteran.  He drove out to meet Lloyd at the airport.  Lloyd will stay with Sis while he is in Pittsburgh during the holidays.  I can’t wait to see him.  Lloyd knows about the magazine.

Every time I post something on the PFF Gazette it’s published on my Facebook account.  I wonder if Sis has ever taken a look at this magazine  Sis doesn’t have a Facebook account but The Matriarch is a Facebook friend of mine; but it was one of my nieces that set up her account.  So, if Sis has seen the magazine she’s said nothing to me about it and The Matriarch doesn’t use her Facebook account.

But that’s okay.  I’m 65 years old.  And to be totally honest with you, I feel that the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is a unique experiment in serious writing combined with brazen sexuality.

That makes me proud.

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