Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
40. showy or ostentatious.
Flash, with its emphasis on each word, does give writers the
chance to be showy. All the how-to-books tell us that such a show distracts. If
we write something brilliantly, we surely must delete it. It isn’t about us;
it’s about our characters. Well, let’s say they’re wrong. Make this one about
you! Strut your writerly stuff.
FlashFiction.Net has a singular mission: to prepare writers, readers, editors, and fans for the imminent rise to power of that machine of compression, that hugest of things in the tiniest of spaces: flash freakin fiction!
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Written by Matter Press's founder and managing editor Randall Brown, A Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction provides NOT the way to write flash fiction, but SOME ways to make your writing flash!