I’ve heard of flash fiction and very short shorts. But today I learned that flash fiction can be broken down into a whole other slew of sub-genres and tiny word counts. A drabble: 100 words Nanofiction: 55 words (these are complete stories, people) And, my favorite…Hint fiction: 25 words (if you think you’re up to …
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Put pen to paper, please.
I recently browsed onto this article at Time online by Claire Suddath about the dying art of handwriting. Claire Suddath writes that the take over of technology has caused schools to decrease the amount of good quality time teaching penmanship. Learn to read, learn to keyboard, but don’t worry about learning to write a long …
Where do you sit?
Last week, I picked up a copy of the Writer’s Digest yearbook issue on novel writing. Inside is an excerpt, entitled Status Seekers and Storytellers from a book called Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass. Status seekers: “those whose desire is to be published.” Storytellers: “those whose passion is to spin stories.” I read the …