How to Write Flash Fiction!

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Flash fiction is an exciting form that takes the best of both worlds: the brevity and playfulness of poetry, with the compelling narrative elements of a short story. Flash fiction will both test your skills by giving you nowhere to hide, while also being the perfect form for experimenting. Learn how to write these tiny stories with these essential tips!
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0:00 - What is flash fiction?
0:52 - Create a hook
1:44 - Streamline the story
2:12 - Use the form
2:44 - Avoid cliches
3:34 - Deliver a punchline
4:22 - Don’t be afraid to experiment
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@FrostKitty14 6 ай бұрын

One time I wrote a little snippet on an index card. It was between about 100 and 120 words, I counted. To this day, I’m not sure if it was something akin to an excerpt or something like you’re describing. I just remember I was still in school, I showed it to my English teacher, and I lost the index card a day or two after 😢 I was really proud of it, too.

@kerri-lynbryant293 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Shaelinx❤

@user-zu4jw3nj9c 6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for me to give me a good idea in my writing journey just as progressive writer I am practicing how to involve in this way my own idea which is generated the old story as well as my own opinion both can be helpful for me in narration to develop the story story structure. It is also helped as you said just now before and in the middle and up to the last I can put up my own opinion between the story structure in starting, middle and in the last it can be as conclusion or may be advisable So many ways of attraction and attention in that way. but I need more exercise for getting that result just writing will finding the way what next.

@sourisdebibliotheque 6 ай бұрын

Do you have suggestions of collections of flash fiction?

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@Skigirl52 2 ай бұрын

Shaelinx, your content is excellent, slowed way down and with subtitles is the only way I could take in the fast vocal fry, and that's hard on the listener.

@cjpreach 6 ай бұрын

I love, Love, LOVE writing flash fiction. 1,100 words, 1,400 words, 1,800 words. For some reason, when I just start with an unusual opening line, the whole story, including effective structure, just flows out of me. It's so easy and so much fun! "My allergies were acting up the day I strangled my sister Daisy." That was a good one.