6 Essentials for Writing Flash Fiction and Nonfiction
Author and editor Gina Barreca gives her top 6 tips for writing striking flash fiction and short short nonfiction.
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Mar 7, 2021
All good writing reflects and illuminates life; flash fiction and nonfiction hold up a compact mirror.
While it’s delicious to believe short-forms of writing are merely grab-and-go exercises, great flash fiction and nonfiction creative works sliding in under the 1000-word wire are, in reality, not any easier to write than 10-page essays, 30-page stories, or 400-page novels.
The good news is that publishing opportunities for flash fiction and nonfiction are growing to meet the appetite of an increasingly large audience. For many writers figuring out how to write effectively within the confines of a reduced word-count, though, the process can feel like stuffing a size-10 foot into a size-8 shoe, wedging a full-size person into a clown car, or at the very least, holding your breath to get tha