Victoria Mixon’s The Art & Craft of Fiction: a Practitioner’s Manual 2010, La Favorita Press The Review One of the frustrations when buying instructional books is determining if a book is written for someone of a similar skill level as yourself. In a break between writing, I spent five years …
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read the last fifth of The Book Thief sobbing, something I’ve never done before—and this was coming after a spectacular morning on a beautiful day. I’m not somebody who cries easily over fiction. However, Markus Zusak does …
Flash fiction Wednesday returns today with a 300 word piece adapted from a poem I wrote long ago. For some reason, when I write flash, I tend to use second person a lot. This is first person, but addressed to “you.” One of the mysteries of my writerly psyche. Slippery …
If you’re a writer, I encourage you to start your own Flash Fiction Wednesday and share the link on Twitter with the hashtag #FFW. Send me the link and I’ll re-Tweet it to my vast army of rabid followers. As always, my micro-fiction must be between 290 and 300 words. …
Introducing a new weekly feature Flash Fiction Wednesdays Every Wednesday, I’m going to post (erm, try to post) a 300 word story. Why 300 words? When I started writing flash fiction (aka, micro-fiction), 300 words was my editor’s limit. I came to appreciate the extreme limit for the discipline it …