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Fiction in a Flash

Flash yourself.

I mean that in a good way. Flash fiction is a relatively new market for writers. The main purpose of flash fiction is to create a story, complete with a sympathetic or accessible protagonist, in about one thousand words. Most of the elements of traditional fiction are required. The narrative should have a conflict, climax and denouement. Flash is also a good tool for testing the viability of a character or conflict. One thousand words is throw-away length in the creation of short stories, novellas or novels. The efficacy of such an exercise is in learning economy in narrative development. One of the easiest bad habits for a writer to fall into is modifier overuse. In flash, there simply isn’t a word to waste.

As an example, and for your amusement, I’m including a link to one of my own flash stories. I’m not including the content here because it has a decidedly PG-13 rating and I’m not about to abuse the standards of Patch.

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