Tagged: flash fiction

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Writing

Flash Fiction Friday!

It’s been a long time–years, actually–since I last did a Flash Fiction Friday, so I’m spraying some WD-40 on the old flash fiction cogs and giving it a try again. For those who have...

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Fiction / Writing

Promise Kept

Here’s some flash fiction for you this weekend. I entered this in the Fire&Ice flash fiction contest on Friday. Follow that link if you want to check out the other entries. This is mine,...

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Thoughts and Tips on Querying / Writing

Tip for Writers: How to Practice Rejection while Honing Your Craft

First, a disclaimer (or acknowledgement, depending on whether or not you like what I say): I owe the fundamental premise behind this tip to Jeff Somers, author of WRITING WITHOUT RULES (a book every...

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Fiction / Reading

125 Very Short Shorts

You might remember that last year I participated in the Twitter #vss365 challenge. For the challenge, I had to write a 280-character-or-fewer story every day using a given prompt word. By December 31, I...

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Blogging / Fiction / Writing

Very Short Story: #Jazz

I’ve mentioned before that I’m participating in the daily #vss365 challenge on Twitter. The point of the challenge is to get writers to compose a Very Short Story every day for 365 days (vss365–geddit?)...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge / Fiction / Writing

Zeppelin

And so, here we are. The last day of the 2018 A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. This has been fun and exciting for me, both writing these stories, and reading your comments and suggestions. Thank you...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge / Fiction / Writing

A-to-Z Blogging Challenge Recap: Week 4

Only one more day to go in the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge! I’ve almost survived writing daily 100-word flash fiction. Since we don’t blog on Sundays (except for the first post of this year since...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge / Fiction / Writing

Yoga

Hey, wait… what? Wasn’t there another story here previously? Yes, but I didn’t like it. It was fine last night, but I woke up this morning-ish (it’s Saturday), re-read it and thought, “Come on,...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge / Fiction / Writing

Xyster

And so we come to probably the hardest day of the A-to-Z Challenge. Especially if you’re writing 100-word flash fiction stories, and you refuse to use “Ex-” as a way to get around the...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge / Fiction / Writing

Wizard of Winter

We’re into the home stretch now on the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. For today’s 100-word flash fiction, I’m changing things up again. Something a bit lighter than yesterday’s. For my prompt, I’m taking one of...