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[Writing Prompt] Write A Compelling Opening

Want to bore your readers and ensure they never get past your first paragraph? Write your opening as it were stage directions: describe a character or a room or the light or the hills… YAWN! It’s a familiar trap and we do it for a good reason — we’re trying to create an atmosphere or [...]

Writing Flash Fiction Gems – Small, Precious, and Slower Than You’d Think

  What Is Flash Fiction? There are, of course, as many definitions of Flash Fiction as there are writers. Length: The closest point of consensus I could find is that Flash Fiction ought to be not more than 1000 words. (One journal points out that, in China, this fiction is described as a story you [...]