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The literature on blogging agrees that 70% of visitors to a blog are new, even visitors to high-profile blogs. The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is not a high-profile blog, but it is a small niche blog with a future.
The PFF Gazette averages more than 100 visitors every day. It is a blog published by a short story writer (that’s me, the Old Soldier) for other short story writers. And it’s published for readers who appreciate good fiction.
So, if you are a writer, you will find plenty of informative and entertaining content on this blog that will feed your own creativity.
Welcome to the most dynamic flash fiction magazine on the internet. The Submissions tab for flash fiction is at the top of the page. Send me something. I want to publish you.
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Writer, Know Thyself
Of course, you could be a mixture of two or more kinds of writer; but it was not until the Old Soldier realized he was mainly a flash fiction writer that he found the genre he was good at and could even become an authority on.
As a young writer, the Old Soldier struggled with the novel and the short story. I even tried to write one and two act plays. I played around with poetry. I was miserable. I was writing and sending out my work to anyone I thought might publish it and all the while working dead-end jobs that I cared little about just to keep a roof over my head and food on the table.
I was so miserable that I spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. Of course, growing up in a home where my father was a wife beater and joining the army at eighteen to get away from home and ending up in Vietnam didn’t help my mental stability either; but it was my failure to get published that I think was the thing that finally pushed me over the edge.
My inability to get published went on year after year after year until I was a middle-age man. I grimly pushed on. Then I discovered flash fiction and the world seemed to open up in front of me.
I decided to go back to college. I got a BA in writing (University of Pittsburgh, 2003). Then on the strength of 50 pages of flash fiction stories I was accepted to a graduate writing program (University of Pittsburgh, 2003). Then I was awarded a K. LeRoy Irvis Fellowship that paid for my graduate education and gave me a generous monthly stipend for three years. Finally, a local weekly print newspaper began to feature not only my flash fiction stories but my articles on writing flash fiction. And I got paid.
Now the Old Soldier is the editor/publisher of the most dynamic flash fiction publication on the internet.
So, what kind of writer are you? Writer, know thyself.
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