Photography and movies have had an impact on short stories and flash fiction as much as MTV has had on music. It is my argument that MTV made music more of a visual art form and photos and movies have done the same thing with fiction. Fiction has become a more visual art form. How has fiction become more visual and what does this mean for the writer of fiction?
It means short stories must have more visual sense details in them. The reader wants to see the story in his or her mind? The reader’s mind has become the screen on which the writer must project the story.
Writing has become more of a visual art form, the short story as film.
For examples of this visual art form, check out “Great Flash Fiction Stories To Read” in the sidebar on the right.
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The Impact Of Photography On Fiction
Image is emotion. Image is action. Image is thought.
What if a writer could use words to paint a picture that told a story? Of all the sense perceptions that people have it is the sense of sight that we are probably most dependent upon. If a writer could use words that appealed to our sense of sight the story would come alive on the page in front of the reader’s eyes. The images of the story would play out like a movie projected on the screen in the reader’s mind.
You will find such stories in the sidebar on the right under “Great Flash Fiction Stories To Read”…
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