Tuesday
- The blurbs on the back cover are longer than the stories within your collection.
- No matter what you call these tiny fictions, rising to the top gives you an embarrassing title. King of the Short Short! Queen of the Quickie!
- Because your significant other is asked what you do and might answer "Flash," you'll most likely have to get used to a shrinking social circle.
- Writing really tiny things that look like stories but read like poems isn't perhaps the best way to get the world to understand you.
- Bruce Holland Rogers sums up the all of it in Rose Metal Press's Field Guide to Flash: "Because flash is so unimportant in establishing a reputation, I can play."
- Jason Sanford won't like you. [Wait, I think that goes in yesterday's Top Ten Perks to Being a Flash Fiction Writer.]
- Small Word Counts = More Stories = Thousands of Rejections
- Your Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction reading lasts about 20 seconds. [You do get to joke, "This reminds me of my wedding night." That however will get someone to say, "You should have made that one your Norton piece!"]
- At a writing conference, when you say that you write flash fiction, you get to have a US Poet Laureate say, "That's good for you. You don't have to write middles and endings." [You know it's bad when a poet is dissing you for writing short stuff.]
- You'll probably be tempted at some point to animate your flash fiction and post them on YouTube.
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