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Flash Fiction (Fiction Project Option #7) 250-300 words or so

Flash Fiction (Fiction Project Option #7) 250-300 words or so. Why? Because we’re too busy? We’re brain-dead; over-stimulated, desensitized, no attention-span?

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Flash Fiction (Fiction Project Option #7) 250-300 words or so

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  1. Flash Fiction (Fiction Project Option #7)250-300 words or so • Why? • Because we’re too busy? • We’re brain-dead; over-stimulated, desensitized, no attention-span? • Because we live in a “flash” world (fractured, media-saturated, disjunctive, fast); TV and now the Web ask us to process the world in bytes or chunks? • Because it’s an interesting, compressed, challenging and fun form? • Because it forces awareness of the word as valuable currency? • Because “good lit” isn’t necessarily long (Dickinson, sonnets, Herrick)? • Works well in class with limited time? • Doesn’t waste paper? • Could be interesting hybrid of poetry and fiction? • Challenges • Must evoke character, feeling, theme with few words. Art of the minimal sketch, the telling detail. Iceberg principle. • Have to be aware of how language connotes. Heart of the “story” is in suggestion and nuance—not explicit statement.

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