10 Great Sayings About Flash Fiction
Here is a list of short sayings that help to explain just what flash fiction is.
Hello hello hello, my brother and sister writers. It’s the Old Soldier here reporting from Pittsburgh on flash fiction and things that have to do with writing flash fiction…
The snow has stopped, but as I sit here at my workstation I can see it piled on the roofs of some of the homes in the neighborhood. I live on the second floor and one window gives me just the right angle to see the sloped roofs of buildings that are a few floors higher.
But this is not an article about rooftops or the weather. This is an article about flash fiction. Now I should make a correction here about the title. The sayings I’m going to list are not so much great sayings as they are great ways of remembering what a flash fiction short story is. And I made the sayings up myself. They help to define flash fiction to me so that when I’m writing a very short story I have these little sayings floating around in my head to keep me headed in the right direction.
- Flash fiction is a significant event given closure
- Closure can be a summation, a change in direction or an epiphany (realization)
- Flash fiction captures a moment in time
- A flash fiction writer can write short on long subjects
- The shorter a short story is the deeper it should be
- Compressionism (show-don’t-tell) is the use of words to paint a picture that tells a story
- Compressionism can always imply more than a non-Compressionist story
- Image (show-don’t-tell) is thought
- Image is emotion
- Compressionism allows the reader to take part in the creative process
Flash Fiction: Her Warm Breasts is a short story of mine.
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January 13th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Okay, Guy. I am stealing your list and applying it as wall paper on my hard drive. Seriously. Great article and as always, great tips. Thanks. Dan
January 13th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Now I need to go and write that story that has kept me awake all night!
January 13th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
This is really good. Thank you for letting us know what flash fiction is. Your list gives me a great understanding about flash fiction stories.
January 13th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Great tips for a writer to keep handy.
January 13th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I wonder how flash fiction could be translated in my native greek language;I can’t think of any relevant translation..
I’ve often heard the term but I just now understood what flash fiction is about.
Thanks Guy,I’m reading “Her Warm Breasts” right after that to get a better insight.
January 13th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Other names for flash fiction include sudden fiction, microfiction, micro-story, short short, postcard fiction, prosetry and short short story, sometimes one-thousand words is considered the cut-off between “flash fiction” and the slightly longer “sudden fiction”.
The term “flash fiction” may have originated from a 1992 As the editors definition of a “flash fiction” was a story that would fit on two facing pages of a typical digest-sized literary magazine.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction
January 13th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
This gives me more information on flash fiction.
January 14th, 2011 at 11:43 am
nice
January 16th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Good tips.