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Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith

8/30/2018

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Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith

​My writing students are on 

their last week of the semester. Usually, this would be cause for great celebration, but it so happens that in this last week the university requires a final project that is the culmination of our entire course. The projects are generally 10-12 pages long and worth many more points than their weekly papers. My students are busy applying all of the reading, research, discussions, and suggestions from their practice (read: homework exercises) from the past ten weeks, so understandably I’ve been answering many messages filled with questions and concerns.
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Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith


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Flash Fiction - Belle of the Ball

8/9/2018

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Flash Fiction - Belle of the Ball

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Flash fiction is the belle of the

 ball, the flavour of the moment, the soup of the day and apparently well on its way to mainstream acceptance as a separate and unique form of writing. Recent articles in mainstream publications like O Magazine and MacLean’s had articles and pieces of flash as well, most literary journals now have separate submission categories for flash submissions and there are more and more flash only journals out there now. 


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So What If You Don't Get Anywhere In A Flash by Amie E. Reilly

7/22/2018

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So What If You Don't Get Anywhere In A Flash
​by Amie E. Reilly

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A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. -Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
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I was cleaning a winter's worth of debris from the garden

beneath my kitchen window, and as I scooped away a pile of withered leaves from between some stones, a garter snake slithered over my hand. It’s possible that I let out a little scream, despite knowing that I was the one who had invaded its space and not the other way around.

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Using Imagery and Symbols to Flesh out Flash Scenes by Melanie Faith

6/2/2018

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The beauty of flash is that readers fill in much of what’s not written based on the focused details we craft. We flash writers create entire scenes and encapsulate characters’ motivations using just a few well-placed images and symbols.

Use these guidelines to flesh out your flashes succinctly: 

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Use Flash Fiction to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone by Charity Tahmaseb

5/2/2018

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Flash fiction is versatile. It might not always be easy to write, but it’s certainly rewarding. Sometimes, it’s even fun. Best of all? You can use flash fiction to push the boundaries of your craft and end up with something surprising.
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So step outside your comfort zone and into something new. 


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