Flash Fiction And Everyday Life

I was a graduate student in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2006.  I got to teach composition, fiction writing and short story writing to Pitt undergraduates from 2004 to 2006. 

A lot of students in my fiction and short story writing classes would turn in narratives full of outrageous people and exotic places, people they had never met and places they had never been to.

The stories of these imaginative writers were full of holes.  There have been great stories written by writers who write about people and places they do not come across in real life; but I always encouraged my students to write about the kinds of people they really knew and the kinds of places they had really been to.  And flash fiction is perfect for this kind of writing.

Welcome to my blog.  It is a blog published by a flash fiction writer for other flash fiction writers.  Explore the site.  Hopefully, you will find here inspiration for your own short stories.

This is the Old Soldier blogging out of North Oakland near the main campus of University of Pittsburgh.

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Read These Sexy Flash Fiction Stories

Hello, fans of sexy flash fiction.  Welcome to the blog that publishes the very best sexy flash fiction on the Internet.

I know.  I know.  Everybody claims to have the best of this and the best of that.  And then you click on a site and find out you’ve been swindled.  Well, not this time.  Do you enjoy short narratives that actually have a “story” to tell?  Do you enjoy characters who act like real people and not like sex athletes?  Do you enjoy the skillful use of description and locale?

Some readers really don’t care about those things.  But if you care about them, then you will love these stories.  You may be a blogger or a writer or maybe just a reader who wants erotica that excites your libido without insulting your intelligence.  The secret to these stories is that they are really about relationships.

Some of these stories are explicit while other tantalize.  See what I mean for yourself.  Click on the Sexy Stories tab at the top of the page and enjoy.  Then tell all your friends about the excitement that is flash fiction.

Writing Short On Long Subjects

“Writing short on long subjects” is one of the best definitions I’ve come across about what the writer of the short short, flash fiction and very short story does.  I don’t know where I came across the saying but it stuck with me.

These short narratives that the very short story writer writes are not meant to capture the big picture.  The big picture is for the novel.  Sudden fiction captures the very small picture.  The best of these small pictures “imply” a larger picture.

And “picture” is not a word that is used in this article by accident.  Picture implies something that is to be looked at as in “show don’t tell.”

To “show don’t tell” the creative writer must use words to paint a picture that tells a story.

The Modern American Woman (A Short Story) www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Modern-American-Woman.632185

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