The begin­ning of and then link to Kyle Minor’s “Where I Get the Titles for My Sto­ries and Essays.” 

A signed copy of a Mary Gait­skill nov­el reveals some inter­est­ing advice to a young writer.

A review with reprints and com­men­tary of Pamela Painter’s col­lec­tion of very short sto­ries WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW.

A link to a group read of The Rose Met­al Press Field Guide to Writ­ing Flash Fic­tion: Tips from Edi­tors, Teach­ers, and Writ­ers in the Field.

In an essay on short sto­ry struc­ture, Dou­glas Glover writes, “Lit­er­a­ture is a way of think­ing in which you think by push­ing your char­ac­ters through a set of actions (test­ing that char­ac­ter in a series of scenes which involve the same con­flict).” This sin­gle sen­tence (very much) changed the way I approached writ­ing flash.

A reprint of Eric Bosse’s “Onion Ring” from SNOW MONKEY.

A flash prompt from Car­ol Guess: con­tain all this bustling his­to­ry in a 100-word flash!

A flash fic­tion prompt that derives from Cy Twombly’s Philadel­phia Art Muse­um instal­la­tion, FIFTY DAYS AT ILLIAM.

A link post to Tarah Masih’s “How To String Togeth­er a Sto­ry Col­lec­tion, from VIPS on vsf.

Find­ing inspi­ra­tion ekphrsasis­ly: get­ting inspired by Dorthea Tanning’s “Birth­day.”