Tim is having problems with his Flash Fiction eating too many doughnuts and expanding into short story territory. The Mad Writers get together and try to figure out how to get his stories to stay within a reasonable range for Flash Fiction. They talk about the shape of a story vs Vignette, control of user perception, arranging implications instead of statements, getting rid of filler words and making words pull their weight. Many of the things they talk about are applicable to other forms of fiction but things that are especially important when writing Flash Fiction. Join them as Tim tries to figure out the magical world of Flash Fiction.
Notable Notes
- Terry Bison’s They’re Made Out of Meat
- Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants
- Daily Science Fiction
- Sunil Patel
- Caroline M. Yoachim
- John Wiswell
- Flash Fiction Online
- Ken Rand’s 10% Solution
Recommended Reading
Tim’s recommendation: The Everything Box: A Novel (Another Coop Heist)
Jay’s recommendation: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories
Nina’s recommendation: Night Watch: A Novel of Discworld
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Intro and outro music comes from “Cephalopod” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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