One of my latest forays into the world of writing is creating "flash stories".
A flash story is a work of fiction which can be as short as just fifty-five words. More commonly however it is longer. It must have a beginning, middle and end, and the general maximum is just 1,000 words.
Flash story is a new term for an old form of literature and story telling. Many of the Fables of Aesop and Biblical Parables could be described as "Flash stories" too.
A Flash story, must be self contained, it cannot be part of a larger work. To create such a work would mean that it was merely a chapter in a longer story.
Flash stories need not contained detailed characterization and need to restrict detail to an absolute minimum. The only reason for a flash story to exist is to tell a story.
Like in the old days of the TV Cop show Dragnet, "Just the Fact's folks, Just the Facts."
A flash story is a work of fiction which can be as short as just fifty-five words. More commonly however it is longer. It must have a beginning, middle and end, and the general maximum is just 1,000 words.
Flash story is a new term for an old form of literature and story telling. Many of the Fables of Aesop and Biblical Parables could be described as "Flash stories" too.
Flash stories need not contained detailed characterization and need to restrict detail to an absolute minimum. The only reason for a flash story to exist is to tell a story.
Like in the old days of the TV Cop show Dragnet, "Just the Fact's folks, Just the Facts."
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