What Is Flash Fiction?: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
Yet the [flashes] I loved seemed to go even beyond “mere” inventiveness. They evoked lifetimes and worldsThey evoked lifetimes and worlds… (continue reading)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Paralipsis: The Best Rhetorical Device--Evah!
A speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. (continue reading)
Monday
Flash Craft: Start Following the "Almond Rule" for Story Openings
The reader should know at least much as your protagonist (continue reading)
Monday
Flash Fiction Craft: Use POV To Close That Distance in a Flash
Writing third-person pieces that use, as much as possible, the character’s language, then, is one way to speed up the identification process. (continue reading)
Tuesday
Flash Fiction Craft: So What (Exactly) is Brevity in Flash Fiction?
So what is brevity exactly? I don’t know. It’s about getting words to count more than they might in other less-compressed forms. (continue reading)
Monday
Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain": Using Summarization to Create Dramatic Dialogue
You, too, can manipulate dialogue through summary and indirect quotation to heighten dramatic effect (continue reading)
Thursday
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