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Getting A Story Gift on the Back of a Postcard
I love this idea that my friend, Kelly, had about taking the idea of the #25wordstory format from Twitter and moving it into a postcard project. She offered to send anyone who asked a 25 word story on...
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A Single Word Can Change a Story (Perhaps)
Yesterday, I wrote this flash fiction story on Twitter with the #25wordstory hashtag. You know … write a story in 25 words (give or take a word here and there, that’s my interpretation). My aim was to...
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One of the hashtags I keep open in my Tweetdeck is #25wordstory, which was first introduced to me by Brian Fay, and I try to contribute now and then. The small stories, confined by 140 characters, are...
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ReWriting the Script with WMWP: Turning Fact Into Fiction
On Saturday, at the Western Massachusetts Writing Project annual fall conference, which had the theme of “Rewriting the Script,” I sat in on some interesting workshop sessions. I’ll be doing some...
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Making MicroFiction (round one)
A friend on Twitter told me about a contest for 100-word-story MicroFiction, and that intrigued me, so I figured I’d give it a try. I’ve written what I have called Quickfiction before (also, flash...
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A Game of The Knight (not a winner)
“Miscellaneous Playing Cards” by incurable_hippie is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 I took part in a 100-word microfiction contest as a whim through NYC Midnight. I learned this morning that I didn’t...
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Flash Fiction (NCTE)
Flash flickr photo by uphillblok shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license I saw a call for a piece of Flash Fiction from NCTE (stories had to be exactly 150 words) and so, earlier in the...
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Noticing A Moment
Box fan flickr photo by elfsternberg shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Over at NWPStudio, Tanya posted a writing prompt about noticing a single moment. Sort of like what we used to...
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Writing Flashku for The Daily Create
A few months back, I saw a reference to a short writing prompt called a Flashku, which had me interested. I found out more — it’s short flash prose, inspired by an image and borrowing words from...
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Small Stories: Writing Microfiction on Mastodon
I am going to try do a few sequential days of writing microfiction, using daily one-word prompts by Wandering Shop Stories off Mastodon. It’s a challenge to write small but still capture the energy of...
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