Flash Fiction. . .

[EitaK Everlasting]

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Discuss: Your own Flash fiction, Flash fiction vs short stories, and anything else you'd like  

[EitaK Everlasting]

Personally, I enjoy flash fiction because you only have a page or less to portray an idea or feeling to the reader. Short stories are fine but I feel it takes a certain talent to be able to condense a text into something small and still maintain the feeling or theme you're trying to illustrate to the reader. However, it also takes more of a talent to write a full beginning, middle, and end for short stories (and for full novels) that I seem to lack, or that I am simply too lazy to do.  

[Otulissa]

Oh... I've actually never heard of Flash Fiction before .xD I've heard of Sprint-Writes, which are pretty similar. In Writing Club, we do many Sprint-Writes, which is basically a very short piece of writing done in ten minutes or less, with no editing or revising. You write as well as you can without lifting your pencil/pen from the paper, and once you are done, then you can go back and edit/revise. They usually come out like Flash Fictions. ^_^ Hm... So are Flash Fictions like oneshots?  

[EitaK Everlasting]

They don't really have to be one-shots. (I go to writers club at my school too, btw, Lolz!) Basically theyre just one-pagers meant to leave some kind of emotional understanding or other reflective statement. Basically to leave the reader thinking in a short period of time. Short stories do basically the same thing but where flash fiction/smoke-long writing is about a specific scene, short stories are the development of an event, so a little longer and clearer. I feel like an english teacher now. . I over-explain things sometimes, sorry. Oh, and "smoke-longs" means stories shorter than the time to smoke a cigarette.  

[Otulissa]

Oh, cool~! Thanks for the explanation! You would make a great teacher. 3nodding

So, flash fiction is usually the result of Sprint-writes then. wink  

[EitaK Everlasting]

Thanks, and yeah, prolly. I rewrote mine once and liked it, though it's like anything else, sometimes it needs several revisions or none, Lolz!  

[Otulissa]

Sprint-Writes can be revised, I think, but sometimes it can inspire a piece of poetry, or a novel, or something else completely. I've only done two sprint-writes though... xD One at Writing club and one on my own.

By the way, our school cancelled the Writing Club. sad  

[EitaK Everlasting]

That sucks. I wouldn't write much if it weren't for my writers club. I've been confirmed that mine is happening next week, but we dont know the teachers who are doing it so idk.. .  

[Otulissa]

Yeah, it really does suck. sad

Haha, I only free-write a lot in the summer time. XD;; During the school year I only write for school...no free-writing. sad