Flash Fiction

06Apr12

Reblogged from Steel City Writers:

I hadn't heard of flash fiction until about a year ago though I don't get out much.

I didn't know that there was a growing movement towards this short style of writing. When you study creative writing, the number of exercises that start with: 'In 300 words write a story about ...' you get a lot of practice writing really short stories.

Read more… 239 more words

I've just posted this to the Steel City Writers blog, but any UK based Writers might be interested in this piece on Flash Fiction.


5 Responses to “Flash Fiction”

  1. I read about that recently and looked at just how many words 300 was and decided that I’m too talkative to stop at 300. lol

    • It is a good exercise in editing. I think Flash Fiction is classed as anything up to about 1000 words, but if you have more of a story to tell then why limit yourself to a specific word count :)


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