Lindsay Lohan
Let’s start this article with a photo of Lindsay Lohan topless…Okay.
Good flash fiction is fun to read and fun to write; but for the short story writer, flash fiction is more than just entertainment. It is schooling. And it is wonderful schooling.
Flash fiction teaches a writer to take raw reality and turn it into workable flash fiction ideas.
Flash fiction teaches the flash fiction writer to be aware and to use the denotative and the connotative power of words.
Flash fiction teaches the flash fiction writer that he or she must use the right word in the right place.
Flash fiction teaches the flash fiction writer that one superfluous word is one word too many.
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Flash Fiction And Everyday Life
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.
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This is the Old Soldier blogging out of North Oakland near the main campus of University of Pittsburgh.
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